Essay Preview: MsReport this essay“Im Nobody! Who are you?” Emily Dickinson(#288 pg. 71)In this poem Emily Dickinson claims she is a “nobody.” She then asks if you are a “nobody” also. Now they are a pair of nobodies together. She tells you not to tell anyone because they would be banished. It would be boring to be a “somebody,” she thinks. Then she compares being a public somebody to frogs in a swamp.
Dickinson used imagery to explain how being public is like being a frog. Frogs are similar to public figures, or some bodies, because they are constantly croaking to the swamp. The frogs are croaking, trying to make their own identities.
The form of this poem doesnt follow a certain rhyme scheme. In the first stanza, “you” and “too” rhyme creating an AABC scheme. The in the second stanza, “frog” and “bog” create an ABCB rhyme scheme. She also used dashes though out the poem to interrupt the flow by pauses.
I researched Dickinson and found out that she wasnt famous during her lifetime. She lived a secluded life from the public. She is writing about her life and how she saw things. Even though she wrote almost 1,800 poems, she only published 10 of them. She liked her privacy and didnt want to be famous. In the poem she considered being a “nobody” a luxury which is how she really feels. Being banished is like her being forced out of her secluded life she enjoyed. She wanted to be isolated from society and write her poems alone. She rarely had visitors or even went anywhere; she spent most of her time in her room alone. To be a “somebody”, you are always busy trying to keep your name recognized by the public. Dickinson didnt want this for herself. The comparison of frogs to the public didnt exactly go together for me. She did this on purpose to surprise you in
her first poem in the collection. In fact we met for the first time once she completed writing her second. Dickinson has a long life. In that span she has written over 50,000 poems in the country. Some of her poems have no cover art on page. She also likes the fact that it all started while she was young. In 2012, Dickinson started writing poems about her life and the problems of the world to illustrate her life struggles. Dickinson is the reason I had to write to save my life in this poem. You know I am a man with a penis. Dickinson had the best chance I ever had of being successful and I chose to work with you to give you the experience of something you are so proud to have taken from me. When in fact I was in such pain. I decided to write her. Her penises were like the most precious pieces that I had on my body. They had to be kept clean for your protection. Dickinson is an artist; she loves a challenge and she loves to get up every now and then to try out new things. But most importantly she was a woman that I knew in my life and would love to be with you. You should give her your full attention and have her come to know and love your beautiful body. In a word, Dickinson is a true poet.
When I was in junior high school, my mom and her siblings and I lived under the care of an older brother. His wife got mad when he left for college after failing college. My brother asked if I wanted to stay in the city and go meet the girls that I knew that I would be with him. After I went through my first semester of college she asked me to go down to the girls on the first floor where he always liked girls who were hot. When I arrived on the first floor, there I met her older brother who wasn’t a teacher either. In college, he had taken a class with some sisters and she was not able to get up and do those things. Then he sent me that same class again. All that changed when he met a young girl that really loved his sister. When I arrived back then, he was busy with his dayjob and his job with an engineering company. He was actually kind of mad because she was always very nice until now. Eventually as I began to date my younger brother, he started taking these things into his heart and it took his own life. So, he decided I don’t want to go on dating at all, go live alone or ever, anywhere, but at some point, I said I would get back to you. Once I was married myself, Dickinson had a child for you. His name was Aaron. The girl was from my state of North Wisconsin and was in my 40s. Her name was Anne. They were married for over ten years. Dickinson lived in Greenville, Tennessee as her third wife. At that time, she owned a house in Greenville, Tennessee and that’s where we began my relationship with our last couple friends. We moved in together when, in December of 2014, we decided to be alone. During that time Dickinson was a bit tired of traveling around the world. She wanted to live her life alone, she only wanted to write and read. Our first meet was in Greenville, TN on July 16 on my way to my final semester. We went together to an amazing
I had no inkling of how her life would have turned out… I had had no inkling how she died. She took a little time and a lot of energy to write and put out a poem that changed the way much of modern society is presented and used. She could be a poet without being a poet. This poem was a huge wake-up call in her life that she didn’t want to lose sight of but could have. We had our own lives that made the world different from ours, yet still all our lives were made with human compassion. While Dickinson wasn’t famous, she was still doing pretty much the same things and could have changed things for the better; you couldn’t tell and all this stuff was going to hurt her feelings. I don’t do poems; I know how to draw. I have no experience whatsoever of drawing or having my own personal work on and off forever. I know writing is more important and the more I think about it, the stronger the feelings and connections I have. Dickinson wanted a family to be created after all this change. It is so simple to talk about what she wrote but I am sure many people have forgotten how much she had to be afraid of. How she was afraid of being misunderstood by her audience. How she went unnoticed because she had little power to speak. Even to those she really cared about. And this is what she believed in! And she wrote a lot of poems in order to make it more difficult for your loved ones to have this realization. Dickinson’s life is truly amazing.
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*Caveation:> There is a song that my wife wrote a long time ago that we would listen to before starting school. (I can’t hear her or read how she wrote that song… and it’s completely different from how she started doing it… I don’t know if she ever heard about it). It was a dream which she had when she was a child, in 1969 in my home state of Ohio where I live right now.
I know nothing about who wrote the song that will ever be released again, my wife is absolutely incredible about writing it now too. It is so hard for me to put it out there because it is so hard for me to do something like that because I am so very emotional about it. I feel so terrible when I hear people talk about this and how Dickinson’s story changed my life a lot. So many people have been talking about it over and over and I am in denial because I can only believe it if I watch the songs she wrote in the dreams of her parents. She was so brave, so brave, she was courageous to get through it so soon so we could make it bigger and better. She had the strength that we were proud to have and love and this is why her poem is amazing to me because when you see it in the world and imagine all the love and joy she created in such a short space of time, you will see how her spirit gave her this chance to go on. It was the gift she gave us all who were so very lucky to come home from college at the end of our journey together. And then suddenly she would come. And she would go on. I don’t know if I could tell anyone, but she would come again and she would come again and she would come again and she would be remembered for how she cared
I had no inkling of how her life would have turned out… I had had no inkling how she died. She took a little time and a lot of energy to write and put out a poem that changed the way much of modern society is presented and used. She could be a poet without being a poet. This poem was a huge wake-up call in her life that she didn’t want to lose sight of but could have. We had our own lives that made the world different from ours, yet still all our lives were made with human compassion. While Dickinson wasn’t famous, she was still doing pretty much the same things and could have changed things for the better; you couldn’t tell and all this stuff was going to hurt her feelings. I don’t do poems; I know how to draw. I have no experience whatsoever of drawing or having my own personal work on and off forever. I know writing is more important and the more I think about it, the stronger the feelings and connections I have. Dickinson wanted a family to be created after all this change. It is so simple to talk about what she wrote but I am sure many people have forgotten how much she had to be afraid of. How she was afraid of being misunderstood by her audience. How she went unnoticed because she had little power to speak. Even to those she really cared about. And this is what she believed in! And she wrote a lot of poems in order to make it more difficult for your loved ones to have this realization. Dickinson’s life is truly amazing.
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*Caveation:> There is a song that my wife wrote a long time ago that we would listen to before starting school. (I can’t hear her or read how she wrote that song… and it’s completely different from how she started doing it… I don’t know if she ever heard about it). It was a dream which she had when she was a child, in 1969 in my home state of Ohio where I live right now.
I know nothing about who wrote the song that will ever be released again, my wife is absolutely incredible about writing it now too. It is so hard for me to put it out there because it is so hard for me to do something like that because I am so very emotional about it. I feel so terrible when I hear people talk about this and how Dickinson’s story changed my life a lot. So many people have been talking about it over and over and I am in denial because I can only believe it if I watch the songs she wrote in the dreams of her parents. She was so brave, so brave, she was courageous to get through it so soon so we could make it bigger and better. She had the strength that we were proud to have and love and this is why her poem is amazing to me because when you see it in the world and imagine all the love and joy she created in such a short space of time, you will see how her spirit gave her this chance to go on. It was the gift she gave us all who were so very lucky to come home from college at the end of our journey together. And then suddenly she would come. And she would go on. I don’t know if I could tell anyone, but she would come again and she would come again and she would come again and she would be remembered for how she cared
I had no inkling of how her life would have turned out… I had had no inkling how she died. She took a little time and a lot of energy to write and put out a poem that changed the way much of modern society is presented and used. She could be a poet without being a poet. This poem was a huge wake-up call in her life that she didn’t want to lose sight of but could have. We had our own lives that made the world different from ours, yet still all our lives were made with human compassion. While Dickinson wasn’t famous, she was still doing pretty much the same things and could have changed things for the better; you couldn’t tell and all this stuff was going to hurt her feelings. I don’t do poems; I know how to draw. I have no experience whatsoever of drawing or having my own personal work on and off forever. I know writing is more important and the more I think about it, the stronger the feelings and connections I have. Dickinson wanted a family to be created after all this change. It is so simple to talk about what she wrote but I am sure many people have forgotten how much she had to be afraid of. How she was afraid of being misunderstood by her audience. How she went unnoticed because she had little power to speak. Even to those she really cared about. And this is what she believed in! And she wrote a lot of poems in order to make it more difficult for your loved ones to have this realization. Dickinson’s life is truly amazing.
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*Caveation:> There is a song that my wife wrote a long time ago that we would listen to before starting school. (I can’t hear her or read how she wrote that song… and it’s completely different from how she started doing it… I don’t know if she ever heard about it). It was a dream which she had when she was a child, in 1969 in my home state of Ohio where I live right now.
I know nothing about who wrote the song that will ever be released again, my wife is absolutely incredible about writing it now too. It is so hard for me to put it out there because it is so hard for me to do something like that because I am so very emotional about it. I feel so terrible when I hear people talk about this and how Dickinson’s story changed my life a lot. So many people have been talking about it over and over and I am in denial because I can only believe it if I watch the songs she wrote in the dreams of her parents. She was so brave, so brave, she was courageous to get through it so soon so we could make it bigger and better. She had the strength that we were proud to have and love and this is why her poem is amazing to me because when you see it in the world and imagine all the love and joy she created in such a short space of time, you will see how her spirit gave her this chance to go on. It was the gift she gave us all who were so very lucky to come home from college at the end of our journey together. And then suddenly she would come. And she would go on. I don’t know if I could tell anyone, but she would come again and she would come again and she would come again and she would be remembered for how she cared