“This Is Just to Say” is a short poem by Williams Carlos Williams is a great poem. It is a poem that touches on something that happens in everyday life. It almost seems as if it was a note is left for someone. It almost like the person had to eat and run or that they were just hungry and that may be the thing that stuck out to them most. In this poem, the writer uses the plums as a symbol. The plums that he talks about in this poem draws you in. The way that he talks about the plums would make you want one. He makes them sound so juicy and mouthwatering. In the third stanza lines 2-4, it says, “they were delicious and sweet and so cold”. From the beginning of the poem you already knew that the plums were cold cause it says in the first stanza