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Emily Dickinson Personification

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In the poem, it is showing that not everyone has a set in stone purpose. It says throughout the whole poem that they are nobody. Sometimes people get stuck in a metaphorical swamp and do not know who they are or who they want to be. It is hard getting well known and actually being someone, or to have a name that stuck around in history. The poem “I’m nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson uses rhyming and personification to show that not everyone can be someone important.
Emily Dickinson uses rhymes to make the poem flow easy. Instead of the typical abab or abacbc she uses aabc and abcb rhyme scheme. In lines 1-2 “I’m nobody! Who are you?/Are you — Nobody — too?” it show the speaker asking if someone else is a nobody. Which indicates that
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