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

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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?

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bearhunter [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-29T20:41:40+03:00

bearhunter [10]3 years ago

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From what I see, Dickinson wasn't all that fond of fame. Take these lines for instance, "How dreary to be a somebody! How public, like a frog!" She seems to view it as an exhausting, dreary thing.

Bogdan [553] · Answer 2 · 2022-07-29T23:03:49+03:00

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.