“This Is Just to Say” William Carlos Williams
...t gone. Then, the complaining and accusing begins. My interaction with my mother is an example of what William Carlos Williams writes about in his poem “This Is Just to Say”. I wish I had the narrator’s courage. I never told my mother willingly, “just to say” that I have eaten her food—the food she has taken the time and energy to tell me not to eat. The satisfaction of eating the forbidden fruit, however, is refreshing. It is always “delicious / so sweet / and so cold.” The moment, just before realizing what I have done, while I am savoring the flavor that is on my tongue, is worth all the accusations and complaints. Williams’ poem reveals the immense satisfaction that can be derived from relishing goods—no matter who they belong to. The narrator acknowledges that the plums were being saved by another person for breakfast. Nevertheless, he devoured the delicious fruits and savored their sweetness and coldness. The narrator lives for the moment—he is not the type of person who would save for tomorrow anything he enjoys. He knows that life is too short to live, and he seeks gratificat...