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This act led to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. If we read “This Is Just to Say” in light of this biblical story, the plums are symbolically equivalent to the fruit taken from the Tree of Knowledge. Yet even as the plums may symbolize temptation and original sin, in Williams’s poem they’re also always just plums.
Read at Princeton University, March 1952. This Is Just To Say. I have eaten. the plums. that were in. the icebox. and which. you were probably. saving.
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Next. William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a unique figure in twentieth-century American literature. Not only did he enjoy a long and generative career that lasted more than half a century, but he also wrote his many poems, novels, and essays while pursuing his primary career as a medical doctor. Furthermore, unlike many of the American ...
20 de jul. de 2019 · Williams has been called a “cubist,” a modernist, but “This is Just to Say” made him poetry’s populist. Reading Williams, one professor noted, “each reader is left free to construct a poem, and the reader becomes the owner of the resulting poem.”. The parodies began in the 1960s with Kenneth Koch’s “Variations on William ...
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