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!
Emily Dickinson
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Such a great poem! When I worked for CBS Records, back in the 70s, I knew I never, ever wanted to be famous. I saw what the singers/musicians had to go through and knew it wasn't for me. Even those of us in the office had "hangers-on" who wanted to be friends with us, just because we worked for CBS. I left to go to college fulltime, and we interviewed women with M.A.s who wanted my secretarial job. They wanted the "glamour."
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ReplyDeleteThat is a great story, J-Kat! It is funny to think of the fact that when ED wrote this poem, the media had yet to progress to the point of creating that kind of fame for individuals. Being a big fish in a little pond can be exhausting enough (or so it looks to me--I personally like being a 'nobody' when I can get away with it, which is most of the time). It really must be awful to be famous the world over!
ReplyDeleteI love how ED is so happy to be in the background---and the happy companionship with the other "nobody" in the poem.