This Is Just To Say

Take a moment with some well-chosen words

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 You can taste the deliciousness of the summer fruit and the shimmer of early morning heat in William Carlos Williams' poem, which was written in 1934. Composed like an apologetic note to his wife for a small act of thievery, the poet, who was also a practising doctor in Rutherford, New Jersey, celebrates the simple pleasures of life in 33 mischievous words. Things to Ponder: How does the punctuation (or lack of it) conjure up how the fruit is eaten? What does this scene suggest about the poet's homelife? By William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939 COPYRIGHT ©1938 BY NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORP.…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2022

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