Memphis Is Just To Say Analysis

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The poem, ¨This Is Just To Say,” by William Carlos William is about how he ate her plum and he was explaining how good the plums were. this has an affect on the audience because as you read through the poem you find out that he was being sarcastic. The author uses a different structure to make the poem more sarcastic.
At first they can not tell that this poem is sarcastic but as they continue to read they slowly start to realize that he is not truly sorry. William Carlos william uses 27 words to relay the message to the audience that he is not really sorry. In the first stanza “ I have eaten/the plums/ that were in/the ice box.” the audience does not automatically realize the sarcastic tone. As they read the story they had to reread a few