Emily Dickinson is a famous American poet who wrote about many topics that include life, love, and nature. Society accepts the view of life from the perspective of the successful. Emily Dickinson's poems portray the antithesis of society's shallow views. Emily Dickinson displays her views on life in Poems I, XVI, and XXVII. In Poems XXVII and XVI, she glorifies the unknown people and the silent fighters, and in Poem I the speaker explains how unsuccessful people understand the value of success.

Poem XXVII by Emily Dickinson compares lives with popularity and obscurity. The poem begins with the speaker stating she is a "nobody," or a little known person, and the speaker asks whether the reader is one too (l1. 1-2). The speaker also tells the reader how society wants to "banish" people like her (ll. 3-4). The speaker attacks the lifestyle of a "somebody" by describing how...