I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
William Carlos Williams
Analysis
Quatrain - Four-lined stanzas
This poem is
written with a calm and casual voice that appears in daily life. It is a
message to his wife or a close friend about what he did to the plums. From
Willams's words, this does not sound like an apology note, but the last two
lines,"so sweet" and "and so cold" could refer to his
feeling of guilt when he ate those plums
