Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
This Is Just to Say
(1934)
William Carlos Williams
(September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963)
I have eaten | |
the plums | |
that were in | |
the icebox | |
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and which | 5 |
you were probably | |
saving | |
for breakfast | |
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Forgive me | |
they were delicious | 10 |
so sweet | |
and so cold | |
Sample Student Responses to William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say"
Study Question: What is reading? How do you read? Some students have said that reading for them is escaping, asking questions, imagining, remembering, evaluating, and listening. Examine your own act of reading. What mental processes do you engage in when you read a poem in this unit. In a paragraph or two, show how that poem has urged you to read in a certain way.
Response 1:
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