I’m Nobody by Emily Dickinson
So I’m at Heather’s house and I was going to post a poem from her. She doesn’t seem to have her books here, though, so I thought I’d post one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems. When I was in grammar school we had an assembly by a group called Poetry Aloud! This was my favorite thing that they did. I recited it for my fourth graders, too, and they loved it!
I’m Nobody
By Emily Dickinson
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!
