LITERATURE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Two Versions of Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody” I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Source: Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1999. Poem #260. 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! Source: Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/113/. [June 28, 2010].