04/30/24

 We read a poem called “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, it’s about someone apologizing for eating someone else’s plums and after apologizing. Although it felt like the apology wasn’t quite an apology I think there was a backstory to it. It doesn’t seem to have said what was the backstory but you can definitely make some assumptions about it.For example it was probably some type of revenge ? which is why the person did what they did or maybe they simply just wanted plums.The two themes would be, revenge is sweet and watch the company that you keep.

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