This Is Just To Say By William Carlos Williams

This Is Just to Say This is a poem written by William Carlos Williams. The poem appears in the form of a note, such as a spouse might write to explain missing plums that had been stored in the refrigerator. “ThiThis Is Just to Say” contains three sentences, each composed of four short lines. No line exceeds three words. This is a unique modern poem which shows that poems can be written about anything and everything. This poem talks about a subject which is very ordinary event of daily and family life. The speaker is confessing to his mother, or may be his wife, that he couldn’t help eating plums kept in the kitchen. He means to confess the guilt and apologize for eating plums. In the first sentence, the narrator writes that he has eaten plums that were in the ice box. In the second sentence, the narrator addresses “you” and reminds that the reader of the note was probably saving these plums for breakfast. In last sentence of poem narrator writes for forgiveness and then expresses his relish of the plums. Whole poem is written in twenty eight words and in two sentences. The title can also be taken as the first main sentence. So, the whole poem can be summarized like: This is just to say that I have eaten the plums and I want to apologize, but can’t help eating them because they were so
The line ends mark usual pause and unusual reflection. The tone is of a hesitant child confessing his mistake. The justification is very typically childlike and interesting: the speaker says that he ate plums “because” they were cool and delicious. Even the title has to be a part of it. “This” may mean a ‘note’ left on the table, or it may also confess his guilt for everyone through ‘this’ poem. The dramatic situation clarified by a few words is also notable. The poem is amazingly simple in diction. Only the thought-provoking truth makes it short of being a child’s