I’m Nobody! Who are you

题目：No.1 I’m Nobody! Who are you?
原文：
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!
[注释]
banish：To drive away; 类似于-expel:赶走；排除
dreary：Boring;类似于-dull:令人生厌的；单调乏味的；
somebody：A person of importance:重要人物, 有名气的人
livelong day：终日, 整天整日
bog：1.An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.沼泽，湿地
2.The bog is another name for the toilet. (BRIT, INFORMAL) (c) HarperCollins Publishers.
译文：
我是无名之辈！你是谁？
你也是无名之辈？
那咱俩就成了一对－别出声！
他们会把咱们排挤－要小心！
多无聊－身为赫赫显要！
多招摇－不过像只青蛙
向一片仰慕的泥沼
整日里炫耀自己的名号！
诗人简介：
Emily Dickinson（1830-1886）是美国十九世纪最著名的浪漫主义女诗人。

她性格内向，深居简出，终身未婚。

大约在二十几岁时就开始诗歌创作，共写2000多首诗，生前仅发表7首，直到1955年她的全集才得以完整出版。

她的诗感情真挚，想象丰富，善于在琐碎的日常生活中发现隐藏着的意境。

她的诗寓意深刻，富有哲理，在形式上打破传统，突破意象，被认为是美国现代派诗歌的前奏。

简单评论：
1.这首“I’m nobody, Who are you”也许就是她一生的写照吧，她不喜欢那种种浮躁的贵族交际，放弃了显赫的家族荣耀，过上孤独却丰富的隐居生活……
2.很简单很警世的一首小诗，一如狄金森自身的真实写照：多无聊－－身为赫赫显要！/多招摇－－不过像只青蛙/向一片仰慕的泥沼/整日里炫耀自己的名号！确实，做一个小人物，平淡的幸福，又有什么不好的呢～～
赏析：
A
At school, being popular sometimes seems like the most important thing in the world. We often think that being the center of attention would be fantastic — like being a famous movie star or athlete.
That's what Jesse Aarons thinks in Bridge to Terebithia until he meets Leslie Burke. Yet the speaker in Emily Dickinson's poem, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" readily admits to being an outsider. What's more, she even seems to like it. She says it would be "dreary" to be "somebody."
Is she crazy? Who would want to be an outsider?
Think about it for a moment. Who would really want to be an insider?
As an outsider, a "nobody," the speaker is not forced to be "public." She does not have to face the scrutiny or disapproval of people who are likely to be jealous of her popularity. She does not have to play games, put on an act, or keep trying in order to be a somebody. She can be herself and be comfortable.
What's more, she is not alone.
What Does It Mean?
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.
As a pair, they aren't really nobodies anymore. That's why the speaker says, "Don't tell! / They 'd banish us, you know." She understands that once you have another "nobody" at your side, you aren't really a "nobody" anymore. And she doesn't want to be banished or kicked out from what she sees as a society of nobodies.
She's comfortable there.
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.
B
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.
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.
C
Dickinson's Life
When composing "I'm nobody! Who are you?" it is likely that Emily Dickinson was writing from the heart. She was one of American literature's most reclusive figures. Apart from one trip to Philadelphia, one trip to Washington D.C., and a few trips into Boston, Dickinson spent almost her entire 56 years in her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. After she turned 40, she never left the boundaries of her family's property in Amherst.
This unusual life helped Dickinson to feel a bond with people who see themselves as being outsiders and unimportant. Yet, to think of her as a friendless hermit would be incorrect. In fact, the poet had a small number of intense and lasting friendships. These important relationships demonstrate the main idea expressed in "I'm Nobody": Companionship is the best remedy for a feeling of exclusion.
D
This little poem is so short and brief that I do not feel it is poem, but must be one. Although it is simple and plain, it can really tell us something about life.
Emily starts her poem just like talking with us”I’m nobody! Who are you?”; in this
way she draws us closer to her poem.
She uses the frog image on one hand to represent people of importance in public, and on the other hand shows us that she herself cares little about fame or anything like that, and she just wants to be nobody.
The other strange image she uses is bog. Bog is wet, pony ground made up of partly decayed plants, but in this poem it refers to herds of admiring people. This just implies her dislike towards “somebody”.
Both of the images are quite strange, but they are properly used here.
In a word, the poem is like a cool breeze in hot summers, which can calm us down. It gets us thinking, and we get to know more about the truth of life.
E
Emily Dickinson（1830－1886), She was one of American literature's most reclusive figures, she spent most of her life in a small village, enjoy the trueness of the nature. Being single all her whole life, she used to doing things alone and enjoy her lonely company.。