"I'm Nobody! Who are you?” (1891) is one of the famous poems of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. The main themes of the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", which is a short lyric poem consisting of two stanzas and each of which is a quatrain, are isolation, privacy and different identity. Although rhyme is used in the poem, it is too irregular to call it a scheme. Dickinson seduces minds with the metaphors of "frog" and "swamp" in this poem, which criticizes society at its core. There is an emphasis on how people constantly talk to be "someone" and how they constantly talk about something to make themselves look important in the poem. She describes these people who talk constantly as frogs, and the society that these people form as a swamp. Well, how do we distinguish those who succeed in being someone from those who fail to be someone? Here, they are “nobody”! Dickinson, who defines herself as "nobody" by isolating herself from the individuals of the society who can also be "someone", directly targets her reader and asks if her reader is like her. Thus, Dickinson determines the audience herself, which is a very clever approach. That is, considering that she is dissatisfied with the society she refers to, the real readership will not be the part she is dissatisfied with, yet the rare part that can be like Dickinson. From this point of view, we can say that the author, who sees herself as an ordinary person, is in search of those who are like her. The author prefers to be alone and out of society, rejecting her desire to be in the spotlight, yet she is uncomfortable with this situation being noticed. The reason why she is uncomfortable is the fear that if the situation is noticed, there will be those who want to disrupt this "nobody". Still, she is of the opinion that if this is society, I am nobody. With all these mentioned, Dickinson responded with a very subtle intelligence to the impositions of the 19th-century society in which she lives.
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