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“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

Williams is a well known American poet, one of the four credited with starting the Imagism movement. Williams was born in New Jersey in 1883, and continued a medical throughout his life while writing. Early in his writing life, Williams was heavily influenced by Ezra Pound, a close friend, but then began to disagree with the European influences of Pound’s writing. William’s set out to invent a new, simpler American genre with his writings. Williams died in 1963 from continuous heart failure.

In “This Is Just to Say”, Williams writes a simple, three stanza poem that uses minimal words to express the meaning behind what could have been a sentence, or a note left behind explaining the consumption of plums. The entire poem is written in colloquial language that lets the audience know this poem is depicting a conversation between the speaker and what could be their spouse or someone else they live with. The spacing of the words forces the reader to add pauses that make the message seem whimsical, and far-off. The pauses capture the hesitation in the message along with the simple diction that expresses the innocence of the speaker, for they could not bear to resist the plums because “they were delicious/ so sweet/ and so cold”.

The entire poem uses the plain diction and spacing of the lines to build uo the apology that seems to be taking place in the poem, but is all undone in the last three lines. When the speaker says “they were delicious/ so sweet/ and so cold” it shows the audience that they have forgotten about the apology and the problem the small action of eating plums has caused, and instead are now refocused on the attractiveness of the plums that got the speaker into the problem in the first place. The word choice of delicious and so sweet are the most descriptive words used in the poem, which explains that the speaker has more passion towards the beauty of the plums than she has towards her apology.

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