Emily Dickinson (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

This poem really gives you the outsider's point of view. I love her similes, too! It's true-if you admit that you''re nobody, people really will mark you for it. It's a terrible truth, but I love her mindset in this poem; that she's Nobody, but she thinks that it would be 'dreary to be Somebody! ' By the way, Emily-I'm Nobody too! :)

I think this is one of the very few timeless poems that in very few lines capture a really big point and deliver the message...
Her fascination with remaining unique and not wanting to blend into the society (bog) is still very much applicable now...
Great piece by a Great Poet! !

There was two ways I believe that she wrote this...
the way above and this way...
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 your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

The words are differnet because we are learning the poem now and I'm pretty sure the one in our english book says some thing differen. still a lovely poem though
xxooxxo

It's just between us girls...

onw of the best poems ever written!