21+ I M Nobody Who Are You Emily Dickinson Gif. Emily lived a relatively reclusive life in amherst, massachusetts; The poem is one of a number of dickinson poems that questions the value of public.
The speaker of this short eight line poem is nobody. How dreary to be somebody! She comments on being a nobody, and she also comments on being banished.
As with all emily dickinson poems, though, it is not so much what the poem says as how it says it that makes the poem distinct emily dickinson's complete poems is well worth getting hold of in the beautiful (and rather thick) single volume edition by faber.
From the story emily dickenson by violiniloiv with 77 reads.i'm nobody! I read it once in high school, but i don't think i really understood her at all then. Packs a lot into only two stanzas. Emily dickinson was born on december 10, 1830, in amherst, massachusetts.