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 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!

Response: When you think about life, you think of how hard you try to be someone, to be noticed or even appreciated. In the poem “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” by Emily Dickenson, we don’t know who the speaker is, but we do know how they feel. The poem kind of gives you a sense a relief. I think the poem is about finding a friend that will always stay close. Not befriending a person because they are someone. It relieves us when they show us the burden of being someone. Dickinson uses metaphors to ask why you would want to be looked upon and stared at with no privacy and not many choices. It gives us the realization that maybe being a nobody isn’t that bad.