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I’m Nobody! Who are you? / Are you – Nobody – too?

Emily Dickinson

Source
Poem, c. 1861 (published 1891)
Written
c. 1861

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The poem goes on to mock the “somebody” who must tell their name “like a frog” to an admiring bog. Dickinson published almost nothing in her lifetime, and this poem first appeared in print in 1891, in the second series of her poems.

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