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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"
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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"

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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535825641
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"

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      I'm Nobody! Who are you?

      Emily Dickinson

      1955

      Introduction

      Emily Dickinson's poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? was included in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson and published in 1955; however, this poem like most of the approximately 1,775 poems Dickinson wrote appeared in earlier, partial collections, edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mary Loomis Todd, and a handful (perhaps seven in all) appeared separately in periodicals during the poet's life. In the Johnson edition, the poems are numbered, and I'm Nobody! Who are you? is number 288. Major collections of Dickinson's manuscripts are housed at Amherst College and in the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

      I'm Nobody! Who are you? consists of two quatrains and displays the poet's characteristic use of dashes in place of standard punctuation and her idiosyncratic capitalization. The speaker addresses an implied listener with a question and comments on the difference between being a nobody and being a somebody. In this brief dramatic monologue, the poet equates the publicity that people of importance generate with their speeches to frogs that croak endlessly in a swamp, tirelessly identifying themselves by their sounds to those who can hear

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