I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed employs intoxicating metaphor to explore transcendental themes. How does Dickinson’s use of paradox disrupt conventional metaphors of intoxication?
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By equating spiritual ecstasy with physical drunkenness, thus elevating natural beauty to the level of divine intoxication
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By condemning all forms of intoxication as immoral
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By ridiculing transcendentalism
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By exclusively literal descriptions of alcohol