Poem Analysis on This Is Just to Say

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The author of the poem was born in the era of 50’s where there is an influential movement occurred at that time which involves massive change on literature works by many artist. This movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material, known as installation art. The concept is employing such aspect like mass culture and gives the idea of abstract expressionism. It is aimed to gives images of given culture in such ironic way to emphasise the poor taste because of its excessiveness. The movement expand to another post-modernism literature like minimalism, modernism, dadaism, expressionism, etc. It mostly critics on the mass media, consumerism, and mainstream culture. The form of the literature also includes song, painting, poem, digital art, etc. The poem This Is Just To Say is one of Williams’ experimental poem which goes with the post-modernism art. The structure of its line, rhythm, and the feet is really strange and fresh and new compared to the poem from earlier era. Williams put the break in a strange position each line yet create its own feel. There are total 28 words in one poem divided into three stanzas, and each stanza symbolise different meaning. The poem sums up literally like this “This is just to say that 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.” In the simplest way, the poem is like an utterance from someone who confessed about something or it can be like a note that someone wrote and leave to his wife or probably his mother telling about a confession of feeling sorry, or did he? The poem somehow gives an unique tone if it is read aloud. The

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