Red Wheelbarrow Williams Poetry

Welcome to the land of symbols, imagery and wordplay , theThe red wheelbarrow is one of the shortest but most complex and interesting poems. By the stating “so much depends upon” Williams invokes reader’s feelings on the burden and expectation put on the “wheelbarrow” (1). The wordplay is exciting as it perplexes the reader by the use of “so much” and “depends upon” which in turn causes conflict in the reader’s mind on which of these words bear the most importance in this sentence. The use of the words “so much” highlights the importance of the “wheelbarrow” in the overall poem. The success of this poem to pass along its message clearly relies on its clever combination of imagery and wordplay for example the division of “wheelbarrow” into “wheel”