The Red Wheelbarrow Essay

I’m going to start by saying that poetry is my least favorite type of literature, I find it confusing, and often difficult to interpret. The Red Wheelbarrow is not very long, so it is a bit easier to analyze. I read the poem a few times myself, but was having a hard time painting a picture in my head, so I found a website that allowed me to have The Red Wheelbarrow read aloud. This allowed me to close my eyes, and really think about the words of the poem. After I listened to the poem a few times, I had not only a picture painted in my head, but a better understanding of the poem. I think the beauty in poems such as The Red Wheelbarrow is that there is much room for interpretation. Everyone that reads the poem will most likely have interpreted …show more content…
Like most people, I depend on the necessities of life that we often take for granted such as, food, water, a home, and even a loving family. I think many of us find ourselves dependent on material possessions such as our laptops and cell phones, they make our lives so much easier, and I will admit that I too depend upon those things in my day-to-day life. However, the thing that I depend upon most is a rocking chair that was given to me by my Papa when I was a little girl, my rocking chair is green to represent my favorite color as a child. My rocking chair helps me relax before bed, de-stress from the day, and think about life. Many nights before I go to bed, I will pull my rocking chair up to my bedroom window, open my blinds, and sit there underneath the moonlight for a while and just think. Especially if I have had a rough, or really stressful day, I will grab my journal and rock back and forth underneath the moonlight while I write about the events of my day. I lost my Papa a few years ago, and since he was the one that gave me the rocking chair, I often feel a connection to him while I am writing in my journal. It allows me to feel like he still gets to know what is going on in my life,