Please explain Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm nobody."

As an addition to the already given answer, I would like to make some points about Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm nobody".

This poem is about a self-cancellation on both the social and the psychic level of the ego. Dickinson's poetic persona is always a protean. It changes from one poem to another, sometimes a bride, often a corpse and so on. In this poem, the persona is a stripping of the identitarian grab, which might be read as a radical rejection of the entire social process of communication, identity-formation and its complex networking. There is a sense of being exhausted, in the tone of the narrator. One must note that this self-negation is no compulsive plight of haplessness but a deliberate, if not ideological decision on her part.

However, quite ironically, or in an idealistic way, there is a communication developed with yet another 'nobody'. This is a radical commune of an alternative relationality. The 'they' represents some sort of repressive social space with its fixation with nomination. To be 'somebody' is to conform and thus 'dreary'.

There is an ethics of privacy at work in the poem. Dickinson rejects the public idea of a social performance of self. Telling the name throughout the day in front of a bog full of audience , which admires the name-reference is an act of conformism that the flexible artistic self denies.The poem may also be read from a feminist perspective where it may be seen as thematizing the exclusion of the female from the patriarchal set-up. And the woman turns this exclusion on its head to make it a feminist ideology of the rejection of the male order.