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Published on Nov 06, 2015

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IM NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

BY: EMILY DICKINSON

IM NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

ARE YOU NOBODY, TOO?

THEN THERE'S A PAIR OF US- DONT 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!

Emily Dickinson

  • She was born December 10 1830
  • One of her influences was her principal of Amherst Academy her school
  • She had two siblings one William and the other Lavinia

Early life

  • most of her Poems where written in 1858-1864
  • only few poems where published in her life time
  • She wrote her poems on envelopes

Later life

  • Her bedroom looked into a Burial ground explaining why many of her poems where about death
  • She wrote over 1,800 poems
  • She died of kidney disease at the age of 56