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“This Is Just To Say” is a quick poem by the novelist, and poet William Carlos Williams. Readers might never believe elderly’s saying about how poetry can be about anything and everything until reading this poem. After all, who writes a poem to confess their guilt and ask for forgiveness? According to Andrew Spacey, who is an author and analyst, “William Carlos Williams wrote a quick note to his wife one morning, a 'passing gesture,' and stuck it on the [refrigerator] before heading off to work” (Spacey). Fascinatingly, Williams’s eloquence and genuine feelings turned such a quick note into a marvelous short poem. Although this poem is less organized than Williams’s other poems, it displays old generations' ideas of how simple words can depict …show more content…

Williams, for sure, likes simplicity and does not like polished things. It is very interesting that all of his poems can explain each other. For example, Williams explained in “Tract” that he doesn’t like decorations that are not necessary (while teaching his city people) “the flowers or / the lack of them — or what?” (Williams). When applying those lines to “This Is Just To Say,” they will read something like “This is just to say/ punctuations or / the lack of them — so what?” In Tract, Williams shows that unless something is a necessity, people should not have it “I will teach you / my townspeople … over a troop / of [an] artist— unless one should … scour the world — /you have the ground sense / necessary” (Tract).
In “This Is Just To Say,” however, he applies his method by not including any punctuation. Some people might argue against this claim, but I believe that Williams loved simplicity. Words like “icebox,” “breakfast,” and “Forgive,” in my opinion, show that he loves being straightforward. Perhaps, that’s why he did not use any begging words to ask for forgiveness. He wants to tell his readers that he is a human being, temptations can overwhelm him, but he still deserves

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