The Red Wheelbarrow Analysis

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

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You are extremely wrong about the concept of the poem being about imagery. There is a solid point to this poem and that is not it whatsoever.

| Posted on 2009-06-11 | by a guest

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I love this poem because it is very discriptive and It makes you think!

| Posted on 2008-12-16 | by a guest

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The point I see in this poem is the imagery that the reader recieves. For each reader it will be different. I have always loved this extremely short poem to get people to think about what a poem canbring to the reader. I ask people when they reade this poem or I recite it - Is it sunny now? (just after a rain) WHat month is it? What is the temperature outside. What other images do they imagine in the scene?

| Posted on 2008-09-22 | by a guest

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- Williams wrote "The Red Wheelbarrow" in less than five minutes while observing a scene out of the window.
- So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens—we can understand the poverty of this sentence as it tries to be a poem.
- The claim that “so much depends” upon this wheelbarrow is quite accurate. On a farm, a wheelbarrow is used for a number of important farm chores.
- Notice that each “stanza” is shaped like a wheelbarrow. The colors stand out because of their contrast with one another: the white chickens contrast with the red of the wheelbarrow.
- The wheelbarrow can be seen as important economically,
- It adds beauty to its surroundings.
- Much attention has been given to the word "glazed" -it transforms the wheelbarrow into an object of aesthetic contemplation
- Others have speculated that the young girl he was treating is the wheelbarrow, with the white chickens possibly being the worried family. The wheelbarrow being depended on could be a reference to the life of the girl, "glazed with rain water" being a reference to the tears of her loved ones. It is also said that the wheel barrow could be Williams himself, the life of the girl depending on him.
- The form of this poem is also its meaning.

| Posted on 2008-03-15 | by a guest

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William Carlos Williams' 1923 poem The Red Wheelbarrow exemplifies the Imagist-influenced philosophy of “no ideas but in things”. The poem, written in two minutes or so, portrays the scene outside the window of one of Dr. Williams' patients, a very sick child he was attending. This provides another layer of meaning beneath the surface reading. The poem is intentionally plain and lucid. Williams was trying to veer away from what he saw as the “European” verbosity of his peers (T. S. Eliot, for example), to create a typical “American” image with his poem.

The subject matter of The Red Wheelbarrow is what makes it most unique and important. He lifts an ordinary scene to an artistic level, exemplifying the importance of the ordinary; as he says, a poem “must be real, not 'realism', but reality itself." In this way, it holds more in common with the haiku of Bashō than with the verse of T. S. Eliot. Bashō, a master of Japanese haiku, wrote poems that are somewhat similar to The Red Wheelbarrow (e.g., “Moonlight slants through/The vast bamboo grove:/A cuckoo cries”).

| Posted on 2007-03-29 | by a guest