I'm nobody! Who are you?

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
To an admiring bog!

By Emily Dickinson (Life)


My Comment

In my opinion this poem is against our freewill.
In order to be somebody, we must choose to find someone, that will certify that we're the best, because our skills are the best.
The meaning of the first line is the description of a being without ego and without freewill, We chose do not harm none, nor to make evil.
But this is impossible, the society will banish us, we are going against the will of someone.
In doing so we will not explode like the frog, swollen with pride, to be someone.

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