Response to "This Is Just To Say"

In the poem entitled "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams the person writing the poem explains to the audience that he/she have eaten the plums that were being saved in the icebox.  The author does not tell the reader why he/she decided to eat them, but goes on to explain how delicious the plums were.

One of the most obvious aspects of the poem is the lack of punctuation or weird capitalization.  The author uses no punctuation.  This fact makes the poem seem like a series of thoughts rather than a well thought out poem.  The weird capitalization occurs because the beginning of each line is not capitalized.  The only two words that are capitalized are "I" and "Forgive".  I think the capitalization of "Forgive" is most significant because in the poem it seems as if the author is asking the reader for forgiveness.  The author knows that the reader was saving the plums, but decided to go ahead and eat all of them.  It's strange however that the author is asking for forgiveness for eating all the plums, when he/she could have just had one or two, not all of them.

The last stanza makes me believe that the author might not actually care about what the reader thinks because he/she goes on to describe how they taste.  The fact that he/she does this seems mean and rude.  If somebody ate my food I would not want them to tell me how good it tasted.  It would just make me more angry.