What does the title of the poem "Precious Words" by Emily Dickinson mean and how is it related to the poem?"Precious Words" by Emily Dickinson

The poem, "He ate and drank the precious words", is poem
XXI from Dickinson's collection of poetry in "Book One: Life". The poem is about a man
who, through the reading of a book, has become metaphorically
drunk.

As a result of his intoxication, the man has been
able to forget his problems, being poor and his fame has been forgotten. Therefore, the
words of the text are so life changing that he, in a sense, has been
reborn:

What
liberty/A loosened spirit
brings.

Based upon this, the
title of the poem relates to the meaning of the poem in the sense that the "precious
words" which the man read were, in all reality, precious for the man. The man was able
to find a new life for himself through the words in the book: truly a precious gift
through precious words.