“This Is Just To Say“ William Carlos Williams recites (1934) GREATEST poem
This Is Just To Say
By William Carlos Williams
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
Among other “meanings,“ this poem insists that poetry doesn’t have to be fancy! It says we can hear music in everyday language if we listen carefully. Lines may be short, and punctuation is optional!
When the poem was written in 1934, “icebox“ was the term used, not “refrigerator.“
Get it? This poems seems like a note stuck on a refrigerator door.
Williams teaches us to look more closely the language we take for granted, including words scribbled on the ordinary notes found in kitchens throughout America. Actually, Williams’ poem is more playful and richer in sound than notes that I’ve left on kitchen counters and refrigerator doors.
This famous poem was carefully composed by Williams--he made it up!--but in the sense that it seems like an ordinary note found in kitchens throughout America, it helped fuel a Dadaist movement towards the new verse called “found poetry.“
Here is how “found poetry“ works: take words and/or phrases from other sources (novels, newspapers, advertisements) and adjust them so they take on the shape of a poem, invariably free verse. Make changes, play with spacing, invert what had been stolen from the original source--do anything! It becomes a poem if you call it a poem!
The Williams poem is easy to imitate.
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My imitation of the poem:
I’m Now In A Sour Mood
By Mr. Gracyk
someone finished
the loaf
of bread--
stupid pig!
it gives me
me anger issues since
I wanted
more toast
or maybe you put
the stale loaf in the trash due to
mold and bugs--
but it’s fine for toast
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