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Identity
‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’, a poem written by Emily Dickinson, offers a
comprehensive expression about oneself and existence in the society. In this writing, the poet
tells the reader that she is nobody, and she goes further to ask if the reader is nobody too as
implicated in the quote, “I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?” (Dickinson
1-2). The poem is one of the oldest and most memorable poems. The poet expresses her
affiliation to the uniqueness of other people.
Walt Whitman’s poem, Song of Myself, explains a few things about the poet. It is
about self-praises which the author directs towards his life. He opens the poem by the line, ‘I
celebrate myself, and sing myself,’ (Whitman 1). Further, he compares his life with that of
the other people in the world and claims that he has no difference from other people
sorrounding him; he notes, “what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me
as good belongs to you” (Whitman 2-3). The poem shows that all human are united under a
common goal and share all have something in common.
Part 2: A Noiseless Patient Spider
In this section, I used a website that analyses the poem for me to gain more
understanding of it. The link to the website is https://interestingliterature.com/2017/08/22/a-
short-analysis-of-walt-whitmans-a-noiseless-patient-spider/. According to this source, the
poem s divided into two stanzas. The first stanza talks about a noiseless spider while the
second one is about the life of the poet himself. Both the spider in the poem and the speaker’s
