Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody": I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—do
n'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! How does the narrator view fame? With dread With hope With expectation With sorrow
Dickinson sees fame as something she prefers to avoid. This short poem shows how Emily treasures keeping a private identity above all, and how little she cared about being in the public eye, she even disliked to be "somebody" (How dreary it is!); At the same time, she addresses the reader as a "nobody" too, as if it was a good thing to be.
