This Is Just to Say
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"This Is Just to Say" is a brief, imagist-style poem by William Carlos Williams, famous for its everyday language, playful confession, and exploration of ordinary domestic moments as poetic subject matter.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Is Just to Say canonical | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American modernist experimentation with form
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Williams’s focus on the local and ordinary ⓘ |
| author | William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
domestic intimacy
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food ⓘ sensory pleasure ⓘ transgression ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstLine | I have eaten ⓘ |
| form | short lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre | imagist poetry ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary minimalist poetry
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use of everyday speech in poetry ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
commentary on poetic subject matter
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read as mock-apology ⓘ read as sincere apology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | very short poem ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | free verse ⓘ |
| meter | non-metrical ⓘ |
| movement | Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguity of sincerity in apology
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domestic scene as poetry ⓘ epistolary note-like form ⓘ imagist precision of detail ⓘ use of everyday language ⓘ |
| oftenAnthologizedIn | American poetry anthologies ⓘ |
| register | colloquial ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | unrhymed ⓘ |
| studiedIn | literature courses ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a note of apology
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plums in an icebox ⓘ |
| theme |
desire
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domestic life ⓘ everyday life ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ guilt ⓘ ordinary objects as poetic subject ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| tone |
confessional
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ironic ⓘ playful ⓘ |
| usesPerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| writtenBy | physician-poet William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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