Parody to "This is Just to Say"

This is the reason

I have killed
my wife
who flirted with
other men

and whose
smile are now
hidden
by me

Forgive me
she was beautiful
so young
and so lovely

This poem is a parody to “This is Just to Say” by Williams. I have imitated the form of this poem while using the context of the poem, “My Last Duchess” by Browning. My poem is a parody to Williams' poem by using the same tone and ideas in the original poem.

For “This is Just to Say”, it has a very unique form and structure that stands out from other conventional poems. Throughout the whole poem, none of the punctuation was used. All the words are only separated by lines and stanzas. The two sentences that contain in this poem are distinguished by the capitalization at the first word of the sentence. The whole poem is cut up in 12 lines in three stanzas, and each lines only contain less than three words. Also, the language used in this poem is simple and straightforward. In my parody to this poem, I used my most effort to preserve the original form and the usage of language by altering as few word as I can.

The idea of this poem comes from “My Last Duchess”, because the idea of the duke confessed his murder without any guilt is parodic to the Williams' poem. In the original poem, the author confessed about stealing the plums in the fridge that was intended to be another person's breakfast, however he apologized in a hardly sincere way. This is similar to the tone of “My last Duchess”, the duke was not regretful in the poem; in turns, he was justifying his murder by complaining his wife's unappropriated action while proclaim the importance of his reputation.

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