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Really I think this is a poem apologizing about something he isnt sorry for. Not about anything sexual :) But maybe thats just me.

yeah, great poem. but what about my plums?!

mmm... i don't know about sex or guilt or whatnot, but that word "delicious" at the end... is just... delicious. What Williams meant to convey in this poem is up for debate, but gosh i just think it's lovely. All I can picture when i read this poem is someone with such a sly happy grin. It is delicious.

My prof told me today that it contained sexual imagery. And though this may "have been a note left on the refridgerator" maybe it was alluding to something with her sexually. Leave it to a great poet to create two parallel ideas from the same work.

I agree with Zoe, somewhat.

I think that WCW is a good poet because he comes up with incredibly bizarre poetry, and I see no point to it. But I think that's his intention, to write things that send people spinning, and therefor I think he is successful.

However, I think that people who read much too much into this poem and his others [IE Carmen Wisdom's semi-religious blahblahblah], I think you begin to ruin the poem for other people. The best part about poetry is that one sentence, one line, or one word can mean anything to anybody. And explaining your "definitive" conclusion takes away the uniqueness of each reader's experience.


Plus, someone explain to me non-religiously how fruit, sins, and forgiveness are related.

Personally, I think it's just a friggin plum.

plums: fruit of desire/sexual innuendo
color of plum: purple, color of royalty and high office/a person held in the highest regards
plum:defined: shrub or small tree bearing fruit/ the fruit of said tree or shrub/ a raisin when added to a pudding or cake/ color, dark purple to deep reddish purple/ **something desirable**saving for breakfast: knowledge of sin and greed/ knows that the "plums" had a purpose, were planned on. saving for breakfast( the first meal of the day) [ saving for? love, sex, intimacy, virginity?]forgive me they were delicious, so sweet and so cold... almost sounds sad, the words tug at your chest, so cold...cold: defined: having a low temperature/ without appeal to the senses or feelings; depressing/ not affectionate or friendly; aloof/ *without sexual desire*
did he take what was not his to take? yes, he admits it. does he feel genuinely sorry for his crime? his words say that in his sin he found a satisfaction, and that fulfillment came with the act of taking
The desire, or plum, was within reach. Even with knowledge of selfishness and lack of consideration, the desired objects are taken and great satisfaction comes from what was forbidden

its amazing what can be pulled out of a note left on someone's fridge.

Richard Wilbur, not e e cummings, wrote the poem about the toad in the lawnmower

it's a note he left for his wife. it is not about sex, it is about plums. it does not allude to some deep and meaningful statement about life. it is about plums.

it is poetry and it is beautiful because it is simple, because it is everyday life. the days the hours the seconds that we actually experience. "no ideas but in things" don't look for the hidden meaning, appreciate the beauty of the ordinary world around you.

it reminds me of haiku.

for some reason, i don't see WCW is intended to hide "any" meaning behind the poem. It is marvelous that he gives readers so many room for personal thinking. But after all, i don't think this is his true intention. Just a note between the couple, something that he wants to cheer his wife up in the morning.

Well i believe that williams is a fantastic poet and while this poem was just a note left on the fridge, I do believe that he had it published because he believed it was a work of art.

WCW must have figured that the note might mean more than one thing...thusforth publishing it and seeing what people might of thought...people read and reread the poem--I know i have several times--and then they read what other people thik--as i also have--and then one just has to read it again.

The poem has the simple meaning of taking food from the fridge or some deep alternative meaning...as missy said, the best part of the poem is the one line etc. that gives you a personal joy