Essay 1 Poetry 
Ramatou Traore
ENH 211- Miller
October 13, 2014
Importance Of Fruits The two poems I've decided to write on is This is just to say by William Carlos Williams and Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold. The first poem This Is just to say By William Carlos is unique and different in a way because the poet writes the poem as if it were a note left by a husband for his wife. Being when you write a note for your significant other to see , you'll assume that is it's the first thing that they see when they wake up. and in this case the plum was the first thing he ate in the morning. The poem is very simple and straight forward , its three stanza. This poem expresses in just those simple three stanza how good the plums were and also shows that plums are also something that this person wife loves because it states in stanza two through stanza three " you were probably saving for breakfast forgive me they were delicious". meaning he is apologizing through this note , for eating his wife plums that she was probably saving for breakfast. If it was not something that was important to the poet wife, it would be no need to apologize. In the poem Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold gives off a similar idea. His poem is longer and more detailed. As you read the poem you can picture the whole scene of this poet waking up and the process he go through before eating his grape fruit. " To wake up when all is possible before the agitations of the day have gripped you, to come to the kitchen to peel a little basketball for breakfast." In this stanza he compares the grapefruit to a small basketball. So you can picture him waking up early in the morning and the first thing he attends to is his small grapefruit. As he continues with this poems he gets more descriptive with the process of him cutting the fruit, "To ease each pale pink section out of its case so carefully without breaking a single pearly cell" This poem is also very unique because he starts each stanza
ENH 211- Miller
October 13, 2014
Importance Of Fruits The two poems I've decided to write on is This is just to say by William Carlos Williams and Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold. The first poem This Is just to say By William Carlos is unique and different in a way because the poet writes the poem as if it were a note left by a husband for his wife. Being when you write a note for your significant other to see , you'll assume that is it's the first thing that they see when they wake up. and in this case the plum was the first thing he ate in the morning. The poem is very simple and straight forward , its three stanza. This poem expresses in just those simple three stanza how good the plums were and also shows that plums are also something that this person wife loves because it states in stanza two through stanza three " you were probably saving for breakfast forgive me they were delicious". meaning he is apologizing through this note , for eating his wife plums that she was probably saving for breakfast. If it was not something that was important to the poet wife, it would be no need to apologize. In the poem Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold gives off a similar idea. His poem is longer and more detailed. As you read the poem you can picture the whole scene of this poet waking up and the process he go through before eating his grape fruit. " To wake up when all is possible before the agitations of the day have gripped you, to come to the kitchen to peel a little basketball for breakfast." In this stanza he compares the grapefruit to a small basketball. So you can picture him waking up early in the morning and the first thing he attends to is his small grapefruit. As he continues with this poems he gets more descriptive with the process of him cutting the fruit, "To ease each pale pink section out of its case so carefully without breaking a single pearly cell" This poem is also very unique because he starts each stanza