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    I'm Nobody! Who Are You?: She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms

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    This poem expresses the speaker's preference for anonymity over fame. The speaker identifies as "Nobody" and asks if the reader is also "Nobody" so that they can be an anonymous pair. The speaker says it would be dreary and public to tell their name like a frog would to a bog.

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    This poem expresses the speaker's preference for anonymity over fame. The speaker identifies as "Nobody" and asks if the reader is also "Nobody" so that they can be an anonymous pair. The speaker says it would be dreary and public to tell their name like a frog would to a bog.

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    This poem expresses the speaker's preference for anonymity over fame. The speaker identifies as "Nobody" and asks if the reader is also "Nobody" so that they can be an anonymous pair. The speaker says it would be dreary and public to tell their name like a frog would to a bog.

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    I'm Nobody! Who Are You?: She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms

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    This poem expresses the speaker's preference for anonymity over fame. The speaker identifies as "Nobody" and asks if the reader is also "Nobody" so that they can be an anonymous pair. The speaker says it would be dreary and public to tell their name like a frog would to a bog.

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    I’m Nobody! Who are you?

    Emily Dickinson​, 1830 - 1886

    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!

    She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms


    She sweeps with many-colored brooms,

    And leaves the shreds behind;

    Oh, housewife in the evening west,

    Come back, and dust the pond!

    You dropped a purple ravelling in,

    You dropped an amber thread;

    And now you've littered all the East

    With duds of emerald!

    And still she plies her spotted brooms,

    And still the aprons fly,

    Till brooms fade softly into stars -

    And then I come away.

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