I"m Nobody! Who Are You?
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 Massachusetts. Dickinson lived a mostly reclusive and introverted lifestyle before her death in 1886. Like most poets her writing was more famous after she died. In this poem, the speaker presents a persona that explicitly states that the speaker is “Nobody.” This “nobody” speaker quickly comes to mean that she is outside of the more sociable people. She continues in her poem to discuss how dreary it s to be “somebody.” During her lifetime Dickinson wrote over a thousand poems, but only had about ten published. Maybe she is touching on her failure to become a published poet, and the fact that to society she is “Nobody.” Although to most it would be a sad thing to be nobody, the speaker presents a more happy side of being “nobody.” In the poem it shows that being “somebody” would be a dreadful thing with so much work to keep his or her image up. The speaker in this poem can be inferred to be content with being “nobody” in society. The theme of this poem can be related back to self-hood and all its relations. The speaker speaks about how he/she is content with themself and how changing would something extremely undesired. It helps to understand how their identity is reveled in this poem, and how it relates to self-hood. The identity is revealed as one of a happy poem and bolsters the theme of how self-hood is an important factor in life, and that obscurity is best desired. The tone is more content and observant than anything. Dickinson creates a character that observes other peoples life, and how living in their shoes would be undesirable. The speaker is content living the life of a more secluded person, and shows this throughout the tone of the passage. Emily Dickinson created a character that is complacent, observant, and shows that being alone is okay.
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