This Is Just To Say Meaning

“This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, a twenty-niece word poem that uses simple, clear and precise language to express author’s true though and feeling of actual eating the plums, gives the readers an illusion that the author puts some deeper meaning and metaphor into the poem. The words: “plums”, “Forgive me” and “So sweet and so cold”, in which somehow the readers misread those words and link to the biblical tale. Instead of focusing on the rhythm, rule and restriction of the poetry, In “This Is Just To Say” William demonstrates that a poem can be written about what ought to be, feel and think on a single pleasure of life.

The title “This Is Just To Say” immediately sets the tone of the poem. The title addresses the person, who is going to read the message, about what following content is not in a serious matter, the message in such would also normally begin with. It also serves as a question and draws attention the interest from the reader on what the author actually wants to say in the message.

Right the way at the beginning of 1st stanza, “I have eaten the plums” answers the question, states that this is the matter about plums and reduces the unnecessary doubt from the readers. The “the plums” brings a visual colored picture and starts the new questions on what has happened and what has associated with those

For example, although poem has not punctuation to cut the break, in line 10, the capitalized letter F serves as a period, separates 2nd and 3rd stanza and also has an effect on the poem that draws the attention from the fact of the actual eating plums to the cause of the reason. Moreover, “Saving”(Line 7), a single word stanza, gives the information that the author has eating the plums, but also starts to regret on his action and hesitates in apologizing for eating these