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Poetry

elleng

(140,465 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:52 PM Mar 2017

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

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!

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 (Original Post) elleng Mar 2017 OP

... shenmue Mar 2017 #1

I've got to read more of her stuff. Thanks for that. She's got a kind of joy applegrove Mar 2017 #2

Yes, joy, but also sadness, elleng Mar 2017 #3

Clear as a bell. applegrove Mar 2017 #4

She was a philosopher, could not live a life of illusion, a complex humor happyaccident Jun 2019 #5

shenmue

(38,550 posts)

1. ...

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Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:54 PM

Mar 2017

applegrove

(127,628 posts)

2. I've got to read more of her stuff. Thanks for that. She's got a kind of joy

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:05 PM

Mar 2017

in her words.

elleng

(140,465 posts)

3. Yes, joy, but also sadness,

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:08 PM

Mar 2017

or maybe frankness, clear eyes translating the world into words.

applegrove

(127,628 posts)

4. Clear as a bell.

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:09 PM

Mar 2017

happyaccident

(136 posts)

5. She was a philosopher, could not live a life of illusion, a complex humor

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Jun 29, 2019, 01:42 AM

Jun 2019

That line "I'm Nobody!Who are you?Are you Nobody too?" has been in my head since I was a toddler. mom used to read us adult poetry at night instead of kids books.

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