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“This Is Just to Say” is a short poem written by the American poet William Carlos Williams in 1934, and which features a speaker apologizing for eating some plums
. Williams is perhaps best remembered for his involvement in the short-lived modernist poetry movement known as Imagism, which took place in the mid to late 1910s. Imagist poems feature a severe economy of language that allows the poet to focus on a single image with crystalline clarity. Though written thirty years after Imagism’s heyday, “This Is Just to Say” bears many of the trademarks of that movement.Read a summary & analysis, an analysis of the speaker, and explanations of important quotes from “This Is Just to Say.”
