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The Red Wheel Barrow Analysis
The poem Red Wheelbarrow talking about how everyone needs someone in their life to depends on. From reading this I believe the interpretations from reading the first stanza and that is the writer was saying everyone needs the help of someone in order to make it, no one can’t do it alone. We all need someone to help us and we reach out for help.
The second stanza, a red wheel barrow interpret that you have to struggle and hold you own weight to get ahead and we have to carry all the dirt that is in the barrow and it’s a never ending journey. Another interpretation is that you need the red wheel barrow for the farming and he is a farmer.
The third stanza in this poem is “glazed with rain water” which represent rain washed away what is all dirty

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