eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Linguistics and Literature 2020-12-03 4 2 85 89 10.12691/jll-4-2-6 JLL2020426 article Min Peng yumipeng0310@163.com; pengmin@mail.ynu.edu.cn 1 School of Foreign Languages, Yunnan University, Kunming, China Emily Dickinson is a world-renowned American poet. She enjoys equal popularity with Walt Whitman and leaves around 1,800 poems after death. Her unique poetic thoughts and styles blaze a trail in modernism, providing the later modernists with splendid enlightenment. Under the guideline of Réne Wellek¡¯s concepts of criticism, this paper examines the modernity of Emily Dickinson¡¯s I¡¯m Nobody! Who are you? with echoes of the ¡°Nobody¡± emerging from the Covid-19 outbreak, aiming to illuminate the modernity of classical literature and its eternal implications even in contemporary society. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jll/4/2/6/jll-4-2-6.pdf emily dickinson modernity concepts of criticism the Covid-19 I'm Nobody! Who are you?