In Emily Dickinson’s four-line stanza (a quatrain) poem, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?,” she asserted that it’s better to known as a “Nobody” rather than “Somebody.” From reading the poem, I think the author, Dickinson, is someone who is outside the public view, and tries to reason the positive aspects of a “Nobody.” Dickinson doesn’t seem to be upset at this matter, but instead, she mocks the public figures/fame. Her purpose is to make a “Nobody” appear better than a celebrity that loses their identity to public’s opinion. She supports the purpose of her poem by utilizing metaphor, juxtaposition, anaphora, and dull word choice to describe the “Somebody.” The two literary techniques are utilized in line 2, which stated, “How Public-like