This is one of the most important poems in American literary history.
Why? Got me swinging. It questions identity, obviously, a universal and yet American cultural concern.
I just love the playful irony of it. "Then there's a pair of us." No doubt even more than that!
"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!"
I've visited her house, and for this I feel blessed.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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a millions of pairs i believe. a gazillion of nobodies, of which yeah, i am one :)
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