Anonymity

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Anonymity Solitude Obscurity

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Ode on Solitude

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you–Nobody–Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise–you know!
How dreary–to be–Somebody!
How public–like a Frog–
To tell one's name–the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

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Topic

Anonymity

Author

Emily Dickinson

Source

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891, I. 1.

Current Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.