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
Website: http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/448/
For my last Blog, I decided to choose a template that resembled my love for poetry. I choose one of my favorite poets Emily Dickinson, who did not get recognized with her famous poems not until a couple of years after her death. In this short poem she is describing a conversation with herself as she is nobody and none is like anyone else because everyone is an independent individual, then she turns her point to say “who are you?, Are you nobody, too” with this she is trying to connect with the audience asking who they are, by repeating “nobody” and using it in question form. Then she makes a transition to by inserting “then” to emphasis the switch from the first two lines to the third to make her point from nobody/one person to a pair which indicates more than one person. The second stanza, Dickinson uses a simile “like a frog” to explain how the public can be like a frog, because of the way a frog can crock which is the basic means for this animal to communicate, which Dickinson is referring too people as frogs for telling there names. Before this there is, repetition using an anaphora of two words “How and to” to add a transition from the first stanza to the second one, by using “how” to ask a question and “tell” to answer the question. Emily using this type of technique was successfully able to grasp the attention of her audience to connect with unlike things, by using stylistic type of langauge to get her emotions across with her poem. With analyzing Dickinson’s technique I am able to achieve a template using her poem.
I:(Adds “Nobody” as a turning point and then changes with Who and Are”)
I’m alone! Who’s alone? Are you alone, too?
II:( Transition with Using words like “How” and “To”)
How anxious to be wanted, To express your needs
III:( Simile “like a frog”)
How happy , like a kid waiting for Santa clause
My poem
I am alone! Who’s alone? Are you alone, too?
Then theres a part of us- express out loud
They’d.. tell us to not complain
How anxious to be wanted
How happy, like a kid waiting for Santa Clause
To express your needs
To be admired and needed by others
akorte1 
The poem you chose from Emily Dickinson was filled with stylistic features we have studied in class so far. I found it interesting how you picked those features. For instance, you showed the simile comparing a frog to the public, grouping them by both of their shared traits in communicating. This was a good point. By pointing out small comparisons inside the poem shows your critically evaluation skills in analyzing the writer’s intentions which we have learned is an important aspect to successful writing. Then from there you created the template based on the poem and made the “copy”. Your piece uses the styles you’ve picked out and comes out coherent and effective. Great job!
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