In “to a poor old woman,” which symbolic importance or meaning do the plums take on?

they represent the simple joys of life, which are available to anyone.

In this poem, the author describes a woman who is eating plums. The woman is old and poor, but she greatly enjoys eating her plums out of a brown paper bag. The poem is meant to show how the simple joys in life are available to everyone, regardless of who we are, what we look like or how much money we have.

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explanation:

“way of writing” should be replaced with “writing style"

“idea” should be replaced with “purpose.”

maybe   “people from a long time ago” should be replaced with “elizabethans.”