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A famous poem by Emily Dickinson that expresses her desire to be a nobody and avoid the public eye. Read the full text, analysis and context of this witty and humorous verse on the Academy of American Poets website.
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"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" is a short poem by American poet, Emily Dickinson, who wrote during the mid-19th century (though most of her poems were not published until the 1890s, after Dickinson had died).
"I'm Nobody!" is one of Dickinson's most popular poems, Harold Bloom writes, because it addresses “a universal feeling of being on the outside." It is a poem about "us against them"; it challenges authority (the somebodies), and "seduces the reader into complicity with its writer."
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us; you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one's name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Corrected version from author's mss. 1999 by R.W. Franklin: I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a ...
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! In the first line of ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’, the speaker exclaims that she is “Nobody”. The use of the exclamation mark reveals that the speaker is actually excited to be nobody.
A poem about the emptiness of fame and the joy of being nobody, written by Emily Dickinson, a reclusive poet who published fewer than 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems. Read the lyrics, annotations, Q&A, and other poems by Dickinson on Genius.
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!
