The imaginary is very concrete, vivid and sensuous. The ‘cold’ plums in the ‘icebox’ and their ‘delicious’ sweetness brings water in our mouths! The fidelity of thought is also striking: they were probably saved for breakfast. This is an irrelevant idea to cover up the wrong, and to be “intelligent”. But it doesn’t help anyway. - See more at: http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/this-is-just-to-say.html#.VXmaW_mqqko