This Is Just To Say: William Carlos Williams

This is many people’s favourite poem and it has intrigued me why it has such a cheering effect. Is it the simplicity? Is it the mundane made extraordinary that makes it so sparkling? Is it the subject of a forbidden delight that we can identity with? What do you think? -

This is just to say


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.