Question

How did Dickinson view fame, based on her poems beginning with "Fame is a fickle food" and "I'm nobody"?

Answer 1

Answer: Dickinson felt fame could be temporal and harmful

Explanation:

In one poem, she compares being famous to be a frog

Answer 2

Answer:

Dickinson saw fame as something fleeting and empty.

Explanation:

Emily Dickinson was a great poetry, which managed to write in a delicate way, but impacting on the intimacy of human emotions and how external factors can modify them. An example of this is how it portrays fame.

In her works "Fame is a fickle food" and "I'm nobody", we can see how it devalues fame, but it does not underestimate its power to be addictive and desirable. Dickinson shows fame as something shallow, empty and insufficient, but which is able to temporarily satisfy human wills, leaving them dissatisfied and proving that they are nothing.