This Is Just to Say
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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"This Is Just To Say" is divided into three four-line stanzas, and the lines are all about the same length—very short. There's no punctuation in the poem, which would seem to mean that it's just one sentence—one of those big ol' run-ons your English teacher might hate. Notice, though, that the word "Forgive" is capitalized in the third.
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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
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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.
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"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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The Difficulty of Resisting Temptation. The speaker of "This Is Just to Say" recounts their failure to resist the temptation to eat plums that were being saved for breakfast the next day. Despite the casual everydayness of such temptation, the speaker's failure to resist situates them in a long lineage of characters—heroes and commoners.
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She refused to name this person, adding: "If I can just say, I personally know that this is not a good person to talk about and I'm not going to, point blank, I'm not going to say his name."
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William Carlos Williams Study Guide Characters Analysis of the Speaker The speaker of "This Is Just to Say" is an ordinary person who's confessing that they've eaten the last of the plums. We don't really know anything about the speaker or the person they're addressing.
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This is Just to Say
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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Overview. Since its publication in 1934, William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say" has become one of the most recognized and most parodied poems in the 20th-century American literary canon. A literal apology note tacked to a refrigerator, the poem is at once inviting and uncomplicated in its presentation (28 words, really a single.
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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 " (1934) is an imagist poem [1] 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 parodied. [2] [3] Poem I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving
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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.