"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
March 27, 2017 1:16am CST
I know I've talked about this being my favorite poem before.
I love it because it is the epitome of who I am. I don't find the poem to really mean someone who is depressed or even a loner. It's someone who prefers their own company and doesn't wish to be wrapped up in the trappings of "Proper Society."
Maybe that's not what Emily Dickinson meant at all. I want to say I once came across an opinion that this poem was one of her more depressing works. Maybe it is. I don't know and I couldn't say.
I just know what it means to me.
Then there's Robert Frost. "The woods are lovely dark and deep... But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."
I could just imagine him on horseback, looking out at the vast woodland around him and admiring the quiet that the woods mixed with snow would afford. I can appreciate his reluctance to leave as well.
I thrive in quiet, and I love nature... So yes.. two different poets, living lives that would intersect briefly, even if they would never meet.
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
27 Mar 17
ive read some frost, maybe a couple by dickinson. i was mostly into lovecraft and poe.
the only thing i can compare from my life to your poems is music. theres some songs whose lyrics read like poetry on their own without the music that just speak to me the way yours do to you.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
27 Mar 17
I love any kind of media of this sort, poetry, novels, and even some songs. Anything that can make me feel deeply enough...
I can only recall reading this one from Frost, though I do believe I've read a few others from Dickinson'.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
27 Mar 17
Those are great poems , i do not find them depressing but they are dark which is good.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
27 Mar 17
I find Frost's to be more "whimsical" than dark, but I can see where it could be conveyed as that as well.
Dickinson's has a bit of a depressing overture though
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
27 Mar 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum .Emily Dickinson spent most of her life alone.We come across "depressing" lines in many of the well known poets.Keats' Ode To A Nightingale is a favorite of mine.But reading these lines,I thought the lines were depressing.
"Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy! "
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
27 Mar 17
That one by Keats' does sound depressing, but born more out of loneliness than anything...
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