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Belonging In Emily Dickinson's 'I' M Nobody Who Are You

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“You must go on adventures to find where you truly belong”, these are the wise words of Sue Fitzmaurice. These words help to prove the point of belonging and having to make choices to find your place in the world. In Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody Who Are You?”, Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, and Yusef Komunyaka’s “Slam Dunk Hook'' the narrators and characters all belong to something big or small through different decisions. These three texts all use different types of language techniques to demonstrate belonging and the different choices in life one has to make.
In “I'm Nobody, Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson the author uses rhyming words in order to show how she feels about being popular and belonging in society. The author identifies …show more content…

In the poem the author describes an important life choice as two paths. To help the reader understand his point more in lines 1 and 2 he also describes the woods as yellow showing that it is fall and a changing season.“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.”The author uses symbolism to try to show the reader about his big choice he has to make. This time he uses yellow wood and two paths to describe his choice because fall is a changing season and he has to make a choice that will most likely change his life. The author also uses symbolism in stanza 2 to describe a choice by talking about the easier and harder paths to take. “Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there, Had worn them really about the same.”The author describes the easier choice as grassy and wanted wear. Describing the path as grassy shows some kind of comfort because grass doesn’t have many bumps or rocks to get over, showing that the grassy path probably doesn’t have as many challenges. Overall, the author uses symbolism in many different ways to show the different choices and challenges in

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