This Is Just to Say

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Domestic Note in 1923

Published in 1923 in Spring and All, Williams's "This Is Just to Say" reads like a casual domestic note. The poem stages a small, everyday admission—eating plums someone else had saved for breakfast—blending apology and sensual pleasure. Its plain diction and conversational voice foreground ordinary experience and private domestic life, inviting readers to consider tone, intent, and the ethics of small betrayals within intimacy. Its brevity makes the moment vivid and ambiguous.