Read the excerpt from "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson.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.Which statement best explains the central idea of this stanza?

The speaker calls herself “nobody” and asks whether the listener is “nobody, too,” showing a connection between people who are not publicly important or well known. The warning “don’t tell” suggests they prefer to keep that shared identity private rather than seek attention. Therefore, the central idea is that the poet identifies with private people.

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