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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!
Emily Dickinson and her literature work is incredibly inspiring to me. All through high school, I loved to read about her work and herself. She created literature where you looked at situations or people in a different perspective. First of all, she lived from 1830-1886 and still to this day people read her poems. I remember my high school English teacher absolutely loved her! She is recognized as one the greatest American poets and I really enjoy reading her poems. We have not gotten to her poems yet in the class, but I am really excited when or if we do!
This particular poem stood out to me when I was still in high school. I really liked it then because I felt like a "nobody" full of people who were "somebody's." Now, I knew someday I would be somebody. I looked at this poem again for the first time since I first read it. I did not feel the same way as I did when I read it in high school. It's crazy to think a person can change, but I am happy this did. A year ago, I was a complete different person and not in a good way. I definitely felt like a nobody like in the poem above. But, as I keep reading, the poem never really states that this "nobody" should be a "somebody." Or in fact this person can be a nobody with another person. Still, I like it. Reading it now, I realize I am somebody. I inspire so many people on my Instagram account that is primarily for my yoga journey. I have 7300 followers and a lot of them I have made friends with.
I also realized that poetry is something I can relate too. As I keep reading for this class, I realize things are more than what they appear. Like in the poem above, a nobody can turn into an admiring somebody. Now, to me this poem means something probably entirely different than what Emily first wrote to be.
This is my first blog post ever. But, it was really fun to write. I will attach a picture from my Instagram and my most liked picture of 2015. I am so happy to be able to share and inspire my journey with many people!
