I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?
by Emily Dickinson.
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!
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 day
To an admiring bog!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
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Emily Dickinson's poems almost always make me laugh or ponder something new, and more often than not they contain true-to-life lessons. This is one such poem. This piece explores how boring it would be to 'tell one's name the livelong day' to what at first appears to be a group of good listeners. In my mind this creates the image of any and all 'famous' people - people who work in the movies, for example. Even outside of the theater, it seems as if the whole world welcomes them with open arms. This helps me draw the conclusion, then, that it would be so incredibly 'deary' to be anyone but who God has made me. Woe to the girl who wishes she were famous!
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