The Red Wheelbarrow

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“The Red Wheelbarrow’ is an imagist poem because the entire poem focuses on a single image.“The Red Wheelbarrow” is told by a narrator and the narrator is telling what he is seeing outside.When the word wheelbarrow is split into two separate words it's the two main compartments, the wheel, and barrow.In Line 7 when William breaks apart white and chickens which place more emphasis and attention to the chickens.
The theme of the poem is the importance that we give material that we own.The wheelbarrow can also be regarded as a metaphor for the hardworking life of Americans at that time and how the hardworking Americans are important

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