I'm Nobody! Who are You?
This poem is a celebration of being anonymous and not famous.
I'm Nobody! Who are You?
Poem
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
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According to Wikipedia, "'I'm Nobody!' is one of Dickinson's most popular poems, Harold Bloom writes, because it addresses 'a universal feeling of being on the outside.' It is a poem about 'us against them'; it challenges authority (the somebodies), and 'seduces the reader into complicity with its writer.' [Anna Priddy and Harold Bloom. 2008. Bloom's How to Write about Emily Dickinson. Infobase Publishing. pp. 103ff.]
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