William Carlos Williams
Poet
American · 20th century
American modernist poet known for spare, image-led free verse drawn from everyday American life. Among his most anthologised pieces is the short apology-poem "This Is Just To Say".
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Surfaced by community readers of "Peter", whose opening apology was set beside Williams' "This Is Just To Say".
Notable Works
- This Is Just To Say, The Red Wheelbarrow, Paterson
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Context within the Archive
This Is Just To Say
“Forgive me Peter, my lost fearless leader”
Community readers set Peter's opening apology beside William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say", whose speaker also asks forgiveness in a plain confessional note. The kinship is one of form, the poem as an apology left behind, rather than of shared imagery.
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