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31 de jul. de 2023 · William Carlos Williams was born the first of two sons of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother of French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish ancestry, and he grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He was a medical doctor, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
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"Postlude" by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected...
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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).
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From the first lines of this piece, Williams’ speaker walks the reader through the narrative a step at a time. The first line tells the reader that the speaker has eaten something. Although it only takes a moment to find out what that something is, this is a curious way to start a poem and is certainly meant to engage the reader. One might wonder, ...
The second stanza provides the listener and reader with a little more information. At this point the speaker and listener know an important detail about the text the reader does not. The plums were being saved by the listener “for breakfast.” This is revealed in the last line of this stanza after some significant build up. It took seven lines to ge...
The final stanza describes how the speaker was not able to stop himself when he saw the plums. They overwhelmed his senses and he just had to have them. The reasoning behind the composition of this piece also becomes clear. The poem is meant as an apology to the listener for the speaker’s behavior. Apparently it impacted this person enough, or perh...
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"This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it was a note left on a kitchen table.
- William Carlos Williams
- 1934
16 de mai. de 2024 · Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.
27 de abr. de 2020 · 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? Or is there more to this poem, which helps to explain its status as one of the most famous, most quoted, and most parodied poems of the twentieth century?
“This Is Just To Say” (1934) is a famous imagist poem by William Carlos Williams. William Carlos Williams was an Imagist, that is he ascribed to the view that poetry should be simplified,...
