William Carlos Williams This Is Just To Say
The poem “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams, is a confession note that is left by the writer to the reader of the note, telling them that they ate the plums they were saving for breakfast. Even though the writer states “Forgive me”, I don’t think that the writer wants to be forgiven. I think the writer is being sarcastic because the writer goes on and describes how delicious, sweet, and cold the plums were. To me, it seems like the writing is rubbing it in the reader’s face. The poem is a poem of irony.
The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is a story of a father and son that danced around the house one night. When he says “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy”, tells us that the father has been …show more content…
The speaker in this poem describes a terrible experience, while at war. The speaker is one of the men in the platoon. He describes them as all being exhausted. Then he says that the air is overtaken by a poison gas, and then there was yelling and stumbling around like a man on fire. “Dim, through the misty and think green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning,” he is describing to us watching through the lens of his mask, watching as a man dies from the poisonous gas, as if he was drowning. The speaker then says if you had seen this and then dreamed about, this is not something you would want to share with children. “The old lie: Dulce ET Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori,” meaning “It is sweet and Honorable, to die for one’s country.” I thought this was a very sad poem but I like the visual imagery that it used, it helped me see and feel what he was going through.
“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem written by William Carlos Williams that is short and sweet and to the point. The speaker is someone who is stuck inside because it is raining outside. He describes looking at a red wheelbarrow covered in rain. The speaker lets us know that he is not alone on that rainy day because he notices the chickens are sitting beside it. At first glance, I couldn’t really figure the poem out. But after reading it a few times, this is how I perceived
The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is a story of a father and son that danced around the house one night. When he says “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy”, tells us that the father has been …show more content…
The speaker in this poem describes a terrible experience, while at war. The speaker is one of the men in the platoon. He describes them as all being exhausted. Then he says that the air is overtaken by a poison gas, and then there was yelling and stumbling around like a man on fire. “Dim, through the misty and think green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning,” he is describing to us watching through the lens of his mask, watching as a man dies from the poisonous gas, as if he was drowning. The speaker then says if you had seen this and then dreamed about, this is not something you would want to share with children. “The old lie: Dulce ET Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori,” meaning “It is sweet and Honorable, to die for one’s country.” I thought this was a very sad poem but I like the visual imagery that it used, it helped me see and feel what he was going through.
“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem written by William Carlos Williams that is short and sweet and to the point. The speaker is someone who is stuck inside because it is raining outside. He describes looking at a red wheelbarrow covered in rain. The speaker lets us know that he is not alone on that rainy day because he notices the chickens are sitting beside it. At first glance, I couldn’t really figure the poem out. But after reading it a few times, this is how I perceived