"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
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.
These lines are from the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson.
In the poem, the speaker declares that she is a nobody and wonders if the person she is addressing is also a nobody.
The lines "Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know" suggest that the speaker is enjoying the idea of being a nobody and sharing this status with someone else but also acknowledges that society might view them as outcasts.
The poem is often interpreted as a commentary on the pressures of conformity and the value of individuality.
The speaker seems to celebrate the freedom of being a nobody rather than someone who is expected to conform to social expectations.
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How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
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