Nothing Extraordinary Most people think that being famous means they have to do something crazy or spectacular. People think that in order to be known in the world they have to be a talented singer, actor, athlete, or president; but, this isn’t completely true. Anne Frank, for example, wasn’t famous while she was alive; instead, her fame began to grow later due to her diary in which she wrote in about what happened in her life during World War II. Many people do something, such as write a diary, never imaging that it would be seen by the rest of the world. This idea is emphasized in the poem “Famous” written by Naomi Shihab Nye in 1995. This poem talks about how different objects and beings become famous to other objects and beings for just
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The seventh stanza reads “the bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.” A picture, in my opinion, is a memory. Something that can be looked at to bring joy to a rainy day. A picture is a thousand words on a small piece of paper. This picture could mean the word to the person who is carrying it, but could also be unknown to the person portrayed in it.
Naomi ends the poem with “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.” This last stanza ties everything together by saying that even the smallest things can be revolutionary or famous. The buttonhole is just a simple hole in a shirt or jeans for a button to be put into. The buttonhole is one of the simplest inventions or ideas that became famous in its own way.
The main idea behind the poem is that anyone can be famous by doing the simplest and smallest things every day. Many people think that in order to become famous, they must do something breathtaking. Sadly, these are also the people that usually fall before reaching their idea of fame. What these people don’t understand is that the easiest way to become extraordinary is by doing nothing
The seventh stanza reads “the bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.” A picture, in my opinion, is a memory. Something that can be looked at to bring joy to a rainy day. A picture is a thousand words on a small piece of paper. This picture could mean the word to the person who is carrying it, but could also be unknown to the person portrayed in it.
Naomi ends the poem with “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.” This last stanza ties everything together by saying that even the smallest things can be revolutionary or famous. The buttonhole is just a simple hole in a shirt or jeans for a button to be put into. The buttonhole is one of the simplest inventions or ideas that became famous in its own way.
The main idea behind the poem is that anyone can be famous by doing the simplest and smallest things every day. Many people think that in order to become famous, they must do something breathtaking. Sadly, these are also the people that usually fall before reaching their idea of fame. What these people don’t understand is that the easiest way to become extraordinary is by doing nothing