"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
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 June-
To an admiring Bog!
--Emily Dickinson, 1891
Under the video link, choose the second one from the top, it is the music video for Beck's "Loser". First off, as artists, both the Dickinson poem and Beck's video convey the artists creativity, as well as their sense of humor. Both of these pieces of work convey being the "odd man out", and how being different from everyone else makes one socially neglected. Both have very lines, such as Dickinson's "How public- like a Frog" and Beck's "Get crazy with the Cheez-Whiz". Though Beck's take of an outcast is more updated than Dickinson, I find it interesting that the two talk about the same thing, just different times.
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