I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson - Summary

 The narrator introduces herself as a "nobody" and asks about the listener's identity. Before (s)he replies, she enquired whether he/she is also a nobody like her. She feels she has an affinity to the listener because they share a common ground of being "nobody".

Her metaphor of "nobody" definitely suggests an ordinary person who attracts no attention from people.

She shushed the listener to keep quiet about their identity because if others know, they will no longer be nobody i.e. anonymous. People will "banish"  them i.e. this publicity will cause them to lose their anonymity which is precious to the narrator.

 The next line shows how much she is afraid of getting under public eye. She finds it "dreary". She compares a celebrity or an attention-loving person to a frog who does nothing other than blabbering (uttering) his name to a non-living thing like a bog which refer to flatterers who keep repeating artificial or false praises and consequently, those praises become dull and has no value.

Dickinson herself lived her entire life away from publicity, she didn't even publish her poetry despite having a talent for verse. Her poems were published posthumously. She lived her life aloof and never married. We can clearly note her personal opinion of abhorring the limelight and guarding her privacy.