Friday, December 14, 2012

Line breaks--Two poems by Wiliiam Carlos Williams

This Is Just to Say

Sentences: 
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast.
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.
                    The poem:

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold




 
POEMS NEED IMAGES!
THE IMAGE:
so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white
chickens
 
 




 

The Red Wheelbarrow

 
by William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.
 

http://www.sophia.org/breaking-the-line-an-exercise-for-revision-in-poet-tutorial

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