American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1329 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"This Is Just to Say"
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The idea
The poem is written as a note left on an icebox, apologizing for eating plums someone was saving for breakfast and adding that they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. Whether it is an apology or a boast is the question every reader asks.
In practice
A note about plums, left on an icebox.
Where people slip
The apology may not be one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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