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31 de jul. de 2023 · 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. Source: The Collected Poems: Volume I ...
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Because of its casual style, some readers believe it was originally written as a note from Williams to his wife. While the poem certainly can be read as being symbolic —of broad thematic ideas related to temptation, guilt, the Garden of Eden, and so forth—it also might simply be a lovely celebration of life's simple pleasures.
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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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16 de nov. de 2023 · Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.
This Is Just To Say es una instantánea de un poema, un momento en el tiempo, un campo diminuto de 28 palabras, 37 sílabas, 3 estrofas. El título se lee como una primera línea y existe la tentación de seguir directamente el poema propiamente dicho.
This Is Just to Say (Wall poem in The Hague) "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. It has been widely pastiched.
“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...
