I'm Nobody赏析.docx

I'm Nobody赏析I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)赏析 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 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! 每节分析： The poem's first stanza tells how the speaker meets a fellow "nobody" a friend. Together, the two nobodies can enjoy each other's company and their shared anonymity. In the second stanza, the tone of the poem changes. The speaker sounds confident. Perhaps it is her discovery that there are other people like her other "nobodies"- that makes her feels strongly that being a "somebody" isn't such a great idea. She realizes that having a friend who understands you and accepts you as you are is more important than being admired by a lot of people or being in the "in" crowd. In the poem's second stanza, the speaker also makes a strange comparison. She says that being a somebody is like being a frog. What does this simile mean? Aside from Kermit, there aren't many celebrity frogs around. Summary The speaker exclaims that she is Nobody, and asks, Who are you? / Are you Nobodytoo? If so, she says, then they are a pair of nobodies, and she admonishes her addressee not to tell, for theyd banish usyou know! She says that it would be dreary to be Somebodyit would be public and require that, like a Frog, one tell ones name the livelong June / To an admiring Bog! Form The two stanzas of Im Nobody! are highly typical for Dickinson, constituted of loose iambic trimeter occasionally including a fourth stress (To tell your namethe livelong June). They follow an ABCB rhyme scheme (though in the first stanza, you and too rhyme, and know is only a half-rhyme, so the scheme could appear to be AABC), and she frequently uses rhythmic dashes to interrupt the flow. Commentary Ironically, one of the most famous details of Dickinson lore today is that she was utterly un-famous during her lifetimeshe lived a relatively reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and though she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, she published fewer than ten of them. This poem is her most famous and most playful defense of the kind of spiritual privacy she favored, implying that to be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible to the dreary Somebodiesfor they are too busy keeping their names in circulation, croaking like frogs in a swamp in the summertime. This poem is an outstanding early example of Dickinsons often jaunty approach to meter (she uses her trademark dashes quite forcefully to interrupt lines and interfere with the flow of her poem, as in How dreary to beSomebody!). Further, the poem vividly illustrates her surprising way with language. The juxtaposition in the line How publiclike a Frog shocks the first-time reader, combining elements not typically considered together, and, thus, more powerfully conveying its meaning (frogs are public like public figuresor Somebodiesbecause they are constantly telling their name croakingto the swamp, reminding all the other frogs of their identities). Question： Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature? It's because frogs make a lot of noise. The poem says that frogs, though they can croak and make themselves heard and be noticed, are noticed only by "an admiring bog." The bog is the frog's environment, not the frog's friend. So who cares what the bog thinks? That's what the poem says about being a "somebody" who gets noticed by an admiring public. Frequently, the relationship is impersonal and distanced, not like a real friendship. Somebodies may have many admirers, but they might not be able to make those personal connections that real friendship offers. This special connection between two people who consider themselves outsiders is mirrored in Jesse and Leslie's friendship in Bridge to Terebithia. Jess and Leslie are "nobodies" who realize that being just like everyone else would be boring and would diminish their individuality. In the words of Dickinson's poem, it might be said that Jess and Leslie learn that it would actually be quite "dreary to be a somebody!" Being "nobodies" helps them find each other.