Fame

Fame Fame Fame, is it the same for all things' In Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Famous”, she defines the word in her own way. In the implied definition, famous is something that is associated or familiar to a person, place or thing. The concept of fame according to popular culture is a little different. It is more along the lines of something or someone that is celebrated or distinguished for a certain act or function. Therefore the word famous is mostly reserved for celebrities and landmarks. Nye, throughout the poem, gives many examples of ordinary everyday things that are famous to one another. These examples are familiar to each other because of the function and association with a certain event or task. Some of them work hand and hand together, some of them require one another for survival, and some are just famous to one another because of their function. To the popular culture, many of these examples are not famous to everyday people, but are famous to the objects with which they are associated with. The opening line of this poem is “The river is famous to the fish” (Nye line 1). famous, familiar, fame, associated, nye, definition, poem, implied, way, popular, examples, culture, because, task, river, person, nye’s, just, function, event, becomes, another, things, television, surface, shoe, shihab, same, pulley, place, one, objects, naomi, line, gives