This Is Just to Say

A POEM BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

 This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten Forgive me

the plums the were delicious
that were in so sweet
the icebox and so cold

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
 The poet

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

American Poet and physician
Associated with modernism and imagism
His poetry is centered on everyday circumstances of
life
Notable works: Spring and All, The Red
Wheelbarrow, Paterson, Pictures from Brueghel.
William Carlos Williams
 About the poem
Published : 1934 Setting : Kitchen
A personal confession. Form : Free verse
Poem is about a man Symbol: The plum
eating a plum that was ( desires)
someone else’s and then Themes
apologizing for it. →Premature death
Satirizes the selfish
→Choices of life
nature of human beings.
→Guilt