Emily Dickinson was an American poet writing in the 1800s. She felt like a pariah from the religious, conservative society in which she lived, and rebelled against it through the poetry she wrote - poetry which was only published posthumously (i.e. after her death). She wrote it in order to 'survive' and make sense of the strange, cruel, pointless world she often saw before her.
In this poem, she explores the pressure society puts on all of us to fit in and be like everybody else - but, unsurprisingly, she is unwilling to do so. There is an excellent webpage explaining this whole poem in detail and depth here. Click here to find out more about Dickinson's life and to read some more of her poetry. Here is the poem:
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!
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