William Carlos Williams & This Is Just to Say Susannah Fullerton
'This Is Just to Say', a 1934 poem written by the American modernist poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), offers itself to the reader as a note left by the poet to his wife. Is this all 'This Is Just to Say' is: a note of apology Williams penned to his spouse for eating the plums out of the icebox?
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The careful and honest observation that goes into the work of a doctor is very much evident in the insightful candor of his poetry. Courtesy of the Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Comedian and author John Hodgman wonders how the text of American poet William Carlos Williams' "This is Just to Say" came to be written on the.
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1883 - 1963 I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold Copyright © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
This is Just to Say
"This Is Just to Say" appears artless. The poem appears in the form of a note, such as a spouse might write to explain missing plums that had been stored in the refrigerator. Figurative language,.
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Deeper Study. "This Is Just to Say" is a short poem written by the American poet William Carlos Williams in 1934, and which features a speaker apologizing for eating some plums. Williams is perhaps best remembered for his involvement in the short-lived modernist poetry movement known as Imagism, which took place in the mid to late 1910s.
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William Carlos Williams published "This Is Just To Say" in 1934. In the poem, the speaker confesses to having sneakily eaten plums from an icebox (a kind of precursor to the modern refrigerator). Because of its casual style, some readers believe it was originally written as a note from Williams to his wife.
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"This Is Just to Say" is a snapshot of a poem, a moment in time, a tiny field of 28 words, 37 syllables, 3 stanzas. The title reads like a first line, and there's a temptation to follow straight on into the poem proper.
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'This is Just to Say' by William Carlos Williams is a three stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, or quatrains. The lines are limited to one or two words only, spoken by a first person narrator. As is common within Williams' writing, there is no punctuation.
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This Is Just To SayBy William Carlos WilliamsI have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deli.
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the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams,''This Is Just to Say'' from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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William Carlos Williams [1883-1963] was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while still a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound.
William Carlos Williams & This Is Just to Say Susannah Fullerton
This is just to say. William Carlos Williams. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold. Poem recommended by: Rebecca. Why I chose this poem: It was one of my favorite poems to teach as a Middle School English teacher. We talked about tone.
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The Great Depression Williams wrote "This Is Just to Say" in 1934, which fell in the middle of the decade-long event known today as the Great Depression. In the 1930s, the United States experienced two major setbacks that together gave rise to the Great Depression.
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Summary The poem begins with the speaker stating that he has eaten the plums in the icebox. He goes on to say that he knows "you," the poem's addressee, were likely saving them for breakfast. Finally, he apologizes for eating them but notes that they tasted delicious. Analysis
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William Carlos Williams wrote "This Is Just to Say" in 1934. Although composed two decades after its heyday, this poem bears all the trademark signs of the Imagist movement . The Imagist movement got its name from the way poets like Williams, Ezra Pound, and others radically reduced the scope of their poems.
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This Is Just To Say BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams,''This Is Just to Say'' from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp.
