My Featured Poem
I’m Nobody! Who Are You? 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 banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://youtu.be
I. About the Poem
The poem is composed of two quatrains, and, with an exception of the first line, the rhythm alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire, and internal rhyme but no regular end rhyme scheme. However, lines 1 and 2 and lines 6 and 8 end with masculine rhymes. The poet incorporates the pronouns you, we, us, your into the poem, and in doing so, draws the reader into the piece. The poem suggests anonymity is preferable to fame. It was first published in 1891 in Poems, Series 2, a collection of Dickinson’s poems assembled and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.[1]
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F
II. About the Author
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she first met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and some critics believe his departure gave rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed. While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not clear that their relationship was romantic—she called him “my closest earthly friend.” Other possibilities for the unrequited love that was the subject of many of Dickinson’s poems include Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican.
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/emily-dickinson
IV. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point - theme(テーマ)
- the central idea of a work of literature .
- Author look for I and somebody.
- The verse begining wrote "nobody",Author hold discourse with relationship of it's nobody is "me" and it's nobody"you"
B. Reaction Point - character(登場人物)
- A fictional personality created by an author
- a Frog,it's nobody"me"and "you"
- It's nobody "me" and "you" is pair , Author talk a frog at marshland in June
C. Reaction Point - imagery(自分の想像で絵を作成し、視覚的に記述言語、想像)
- imagery visually descriptive language that creates pictures in one's imagination
- Author of verse is suffer.
- Author talk nobody at marshland in June.
D. My General Opinion
I had read other poety of Emily Dickinson.but I had read this poety for the first time.
I think this poety is suffer of feeling.I wonder author is to be worried to solitude.
And author talkig to a frag is very unique.
