This Is Just To Say

"This Is Just To Say" (1934) is a famous imagist poem 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 Written as though it were a note left on a ice box, Williams' poem appears to the reader like a piece of found poetry. Metrically, the poem exhibits no regularity of stress or of syllable count. Except for lines two and ... more

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