DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams Originally read: September 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: William Carlos Williams Probably one of the most famous and the most analyzed poem from William Carlos Williams.  I'm sure, dear reader (or spambot) you can find better analysis than mine on the subject.  This is just a warning. Every class in where we analyzed this poem, there were always snickers from the audience, "oh, you know what this means."  No, I don't.  "It's about sex."  Great. Where in the poem should be the question:        This is Just to Say       I have eaten       the plums       that were in       the icebox Note the lack of punctuation here and also note how the title bleeds into the body.  The speaker admits on this sort of innocent theft to "the other."  Who, presumably his wife.  And stop...