The Red Wheelbarrow

Admittedly, “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams has given me trouble since I first read it nearly fifteen years ago in my 11th grade literature class. Given that fact, along with the ubiquity of the famous poem, I have had ample time to think about the work’s meaning. However, it was only in being tasked with writing about the poem that I was forced to realize that my tendency to over-analyze is exactly why I had failed to grasp “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the first place. Williams’ famous work is, for lack of a better phrase, a verbal painting. It is no more than a slice of life frozen in place; it is, in description and form, simply a picture that expertly steers the mind to consider the significance of simplicity. What better example…

“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a short poem written by William Carlos Williams that is broken down into four stanzas. After the first time reading the poem you see Mr. Williams’ ability to depict a scenario with sixteen simple words. The structure of the poem and word usage brings the reader closer to the scene being painted by Mr. Williams’. The first stanza brings the reader in and captures there attention by stating “so much depends upon.” You begin to wonder what can be so important. The…

Carlos Williams hold his red wheelbarrow to so much standards. He feels as though so much depends upon it. When we focus on the little things, we tend to get side-tracked as William Carlos Williams shows in his “Red Wheel” poem and not consider important things as Bergmann pointed in her “Apology” poem these ideas connect to political…

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…

poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”, William Carlos Williams uses both imagery and word order to create a picture in his reader’s minds. The first initial picture that is formed, in my opinion, is of a farm setting; readers can visualize a red wheelbarrow, wet, with white chickens around it. However, if we take a closer look at the words, we are be able to see a much more elaborate representation than just an ordinary farm scene. Williams’s placement of particular words, in this poem, is just as…

The imagery is deprived of figurative language, and the words are bereft of unnecessary or complicated adjectives. William provides only the elementary and vital description of the wheelbarrow. It is “red” covered with shiny “water”, which makes the wheelbarrow dazzle and stand out. Green indicates this technique is characteristic of the writers part of the imagism movement like Williams, who seeks to isolate a single image to reveal its essence. The absence of qualitative to describe the…

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…

Could it be possible to write such a small poem with such intensity with so few words? When reading The Red Wheelbarrow so many great memories great are brought back to me. Who knew 16 little words or also called the “20 second poem” could draw out so many thoughts and feelings in so many people. This poem paints such a great picture in your mind even if you never lived on a farm you could still imagine the beauty in the words. Although this was such a short poem it seemed rather easy to…

The period of modernism in the literature has brought the new forms and the new ways of expressing the ideas. With the development of the imagist movement in the poetry, the free verse and the clarity of expression as well as clear language came to the foreground. The poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams is one of the best examples of true imagist poem since it places value on the simplicity of the created image and on the imagery in general, instead of prioritizing some…

This poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” has made many readers to be amazed, and think about their childhood. The story had the readers got them interested, especially since the wheelbarrow is the most important item in the U.S history. However, numerous people have been wondering the same question all their lives, which is this: “What do you think the poet is trying to say in the poem?” and the question remains unanswered to this day, until now. (enotes) The three topics that shall stand as the…