Emily Dickinson was known for her reclusive nature to the point of never leaving home after dropping out of Mount Holyoke College. She never liked being in the public eye and at one point in her life even stated that she thought it was ridiculous to publish her poems. This feeling of not wanting to be famous and enjoying solitude is emphasized in her poem “I am nobody! Who are you? (260)” published in 1891. By using similes and pronouns Dickinson gives the feeling of talking to a dear friend, the reader, about why he is happy to be nobody. Dickinson did not always desire to be an unpublished and unknown writer and sometimes a point "began his career with a normal appetite for recognition". (Wilbur) In his poem “Success is considered the sweetest (112)” we see how he seems to praise an unknown success. Dickinson’s poems were numbers at the time they were believed to have been written and as they were nearly 150 poems before “I am nobody! Who are you?" it can be assumed that it was during the period when she still desired to be published. The third and fourth lines of the poem state "Understanding a nectar / Requires the greatest need" (3.4) in which the narrator recalls the attention to the fact that to truly enjoy the feeling of success you have to really want it to the point that you want it anyone" (5) and has no desire to advertise or succeed at all. With the poem mentioned above, Dickinson had praised the success but it is very contrasted once again with “I am Nobody! Who are you?” using the comparison style of similarities. Dickinson compares being published as “like a frog” (6) while “saying one's name – the long Ju…… in the center of the paper……w. These were before he began his breakthrough in publishing and thereafter he never showed his poems to a publisher again and believed that publishing the work was like selling the real air or selling free gifts from God. (Guthrie) Fu only when her sister discovered all the poems in a file inside one of Dickinson's drawers were they sent to a publisher and published soon after. Now there are books and critics for Emily Dickinson's work that transformed a woman who prided herself on being a "nobody" and never publishing into a "somebody" that everyone loves. Works Cited Guthrie, James. “Emily Dickinson.” ENG 3310-02 American Texts: Colonial -1890.Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio. October 25, 2013. Lecture.Kennedy, XJ. “Two Critical Cases: Criticisms on Emily Dickinson.” An introduction to poetry. 13th ed. Boston: Small, Brown, 1966. 343-344. Press.