Red Wheelbarrow Analysis

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The imagery to the poem "Red Wheelbarrow" (Williams, 1923), presents many images and strong feelings for a person to think about. But, first it makes me get the image of a farm tool that is needed for most every day jobs done on a farm, oh the number of times I've had to push a wheelbarrow to complete a task on the dairy farm I grew up on. This imagery takes me back to good memories that I had growing up on the farm, but it also has terrible memories as well, because of the amount of work required to push and balance a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow's presence gives the image of many a young farm kids having to complete chores, and how hard that would be if not for that Red Wheelbarrow. Long days shoveling and carrying heavy loads of feed and

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