Emily Dickinson's I M Nobody !

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“I’m Nobody!Who are you?Are you Nobody too?”These are the unique words that Emily wrote to show what she wants her readers to know.Emily Dickinson was a reserved person who enjoys the idea of being alone.She always wore white and shut herself out so she could make her writing about the truth of how people really feel. Emily’s style of writing was way different from writers in her time period.One poem that shows the personality of Emily Dickinson's “I’m Nobody!”.In the poem of “I’m Nobody!”,Emily Dickinson uses tone,word choice,and point of view to reveal that it’s probably more preferable to be lonely instead of a somebody and that she wants the reader to understand that it’s okay to feel and be lonely. In the poem “I’m Nobody”Emily uses tone to get through the idea that being a somebody is pointless and being alone is better.A derogatory tone is used in the poem to shame those who want to be somebody and why they shouldn’t want to feel like that.For example,in the second stanza it states,”How dreary to be Somebody!” which sounds like her tone was used to shame the “Somebodies”.Also when she says “Don’t tell!They’d banish us,you know!”she gives off a warning tone to the reader as if they were actually in the writing.That is how Emily used tone to prove that being lonely should be more preferable.

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