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1、Im Nobody! Who are you? (260)赏析by Emily DickinsonIm Nobody! Who are you?Are you - Nobody - too?Then theres a pair of us!Dont tell! theyd advertise you know!How dreary - to be -Somebody!How public -like a Frog -To tell ones name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!每节分析：The poems first stanza tel
2、ls how the speaker meets a fellow nobody a friend. Togethenobodies can enjoy each others company and their shared anonymity.In the second stanza, the tone of the poem changes. The speaker sounds confident. Perhaps it is her discovery that there are other people like her- o-hthiatnobodieser feels str
3、ongly thatbeing a somebody isnt such a great idea.She realizes that having a friend who understands you and accepts you as you are is more important than being admired by a lot of people or being in the in crowd.In the poems second stanza, the speakeralso makes a strange comparison. She says that be
4、ing a somebody is like being a frog. What does this simile mean? Aside from Kermit, there arent many celebrity frogs around.SummaryThe speaker exclaims that she is“Nobody, and asks,“Who are you? / Are you Noboso, she says, then they are a pair of “they d banish us you know! “ public and require that
5、,Bog!”nobodies, and she admonishes her addresseenot to tell, for She says that it would be“dreary ” to be“Somebody“like a Frog, “ one tell one s name “the livelong JuneFormThe two stanzas of I Nobody! ” are highly typical for Dickinson, constituted of loose iambic trimeter occasionally including a f
6、ourth stress ( Toell your name the livelong June)They follow an ABCB rhyme scheme (though in the first stanza,“you” and “too ” rhyme, andonly a half-rhyme, so the scheme could appear to be AABC), and she frequently uses rhythmic dashes to interrupt the flow.CommentaryIronically, one of the most famo
7、us details of Dickinson lore today is that she was utterly un -famous during her lifetime she lived a relatively reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and though she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, she published fewer than ten of them. This poem is her most famous and most playful defense of the kind
8、of spiritual privacy she favored, implying that to be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible to the dreary Somebodies for thaerye too busy keeping their names in circulation, croaking like frogs in a swamp in the summertime. This poem is an outstanding early example of Dickinson osften jaunty approac
9、h to meter (she uses her trademark dashes quite forcefully to interrupt lines and interfere with the flow of her poem, as in “ Howdreary to be Somebody!” )F. urther, the poem vividly illustrates her surprising way with language. The juxtaposition in the line “ Howpublic likea Frog ” shocks the first
10、-time reader, combining elements not typically considered together, and, thus, more powerfully conveying its meaning (frogs are “ public ” like public figures or Somebodies because they are constantly “ telling croaking to the swamp, reminding all the other frogs of their identities).Question ： Why
11、does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature?Its because frogs make a lot of noise. The poem says that frogs, though they can croak and make themselves heard and be noticed, are noticed only by an admiring bog. The bog is the frogs environment, not the frogs frie
12、nd. So who cares what the bog thinks?Thats what the poem says about being a somebody who gets noticed by an admiring public. Frequently, the relationship is impersonal and distanced, not like a real friendship. Somebodies may have many admirers, but they might not be able to make those personal conn
13、ections that real friendship offers.This special connection between two people who consider themselves outsiders is mirrored in Jesse and Leslies friendship in Bridge to Terebithia. Jess and Leslie are nobodies who realize that being just like everyone else would be boring and would diminish their individuality. In the words of Dickinsons poem, it might be said that Jess and Leslie learn that it would actually be quite dreary to be a somebody!Being nobodies helps them find each other.