This Is Just to Say

How does William's use imagery in the poem, This Is Just to Say?

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Williams, a modernist, specifically belonged to the imagist movement, a subset of modernism that stressed the use of precise and clear images to create meaning. This movement is on display in “This Is Just To Say,” a poem centered on a single image: “the plums / that were in / the icebox” (2-4).

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