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1、Im Nobody! Who are you? (260)赏析byEmily DickinsonIm Nobody! Who are you?Are youNobodytoo?Then theres a pair of us!Dont tell! theyd advertiseyou know!How drearyto beSomebody!How publiclike a Frog To tell ones namethe livelong June To an admiring Bog!每节分析：The poems first stanza tells how the speaker me
2、ets a fellow nobody a friend. Together, the two nobodies can enjoy each others company and their shared anonymity.In the second stanza, the tone of the poem changes. The speaker sounds confident. Perhaps it is her discovery that there are other people like her other nobodies- that makes her feels st
3、rongly that being a somebody isnt such a great idea.She realizes that having a friend who understands you and accepts you as you are is more important than being admired by a lot of people or being in the in crowd.In the poems second stanza, the speaker also makes a strange comparison. She says that
4、 being a somebody is like being a frog. What does this simile mean? Aside from Kermit, there arent many celebrity frogs around.SummaryThe speaker exclaims that she is “Nobody,” and asks, “Who are you? / Are you Nobodytoo?” If so, she says, then they are a pair of nobodies, and she admonishes her add
5、ressee not to tell, for “theyd banish usyou know!” She says that it would be “dreary” to be “Somebody”it would be “public” and require that, “like a Frog,” one tell ones name “the livelong June / To an admiring Bog!”FormThe two stanzas of “Im Nobody!” are highly typical for Dickinson, constituted of
6、 loose iambic trimeter occasionally including a fourth stress (“To tell your namethe livelong June”). They follow an ABCB rhyme scheme (though in the first stanza, “you” and “too” rhyme, and “know” is only a half-rhyme, so the scheme could appear to be AABC), and she frequently uses rhythmic dashes
7、to interrupt the flow.CommentaryIronically, one of the most famous details of Dickinson lore today is that she was utterly un-famous during her lifetimeshe lived a relatively reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and though she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, she published fewer than ten of them. This
8、 poem is her most famous and most playful defense of the kind of spiritual privacy she favored, implying that to be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible to the dreary Somebodiesfor they are too busy keeping their names in circulation, croaking like frogs in a swamp in the summertime. This poem is a
9、n outstanding early example of Dickinsons often jaunty approach to meter (she uses her trademark dashes quite forcefully to interrupt lines and interfere with the flow of her poem, as in “How dreary to beSomebody!”). Further, the poem vividly illustrates her surprising way with language. The juxtapo
10、sition in the line “How publiclike a Frog” shocks the first-time reader, combining elements not typically considered together, and, thus, more powerfully conveying its meaning (frogs are “public” like public figuresor Somebodiesbecause they are constantly “telling their name” croakingto the swamp, r
11、eminding all the other frogs of their identities).Question： Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature?Its because frogs make a lot of noise. The poem says that frogs, though they can croak and make themselves heard and be noticed, are noticed only by an ad
12、miring bog. The bog is the frogs environment, not the frogs friend. So who cares what the bog thinks?Thats what the poem says about being a somebody who gets noticed by an admiring public. Frequently, the relationship is impersonal and distanced, not like a real friendship. Somebodies may have many
13、admirers, but they might not be able to make those personal connections that real friendship offers.This special connection between two people who consider themselves outsiders is mirrored in Jesse and Leslies friendship in Bridge to Terebithia. Jess and Leslie are nobodies who realize that being just like everyone else would be boring and would diminish their individuality. In the words of Dickinsons poem, it might be said that Jess and Leslie learn that it would actually be quite dreary to be a somebody!Being nobodies helps them find each other.
