The Red Wheelbarrow Analysis
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. The Red Wheelbarrow Summary
Our speaker reflects on how important a certain red wheelbarrow is. This wheelbarrow is wet from a recent rain, and there happen to be white chickens hanging out with the wheelbarrow. The End.
The Red Wheelbarrow Summary
Line 1 so much depends * Our speaker doesn't say "much depends" or "things depend" or "I depend," he says "so much depends." That "so" makes us feel the gravity of the situation. It's as though our speaker really wants and needs to drive the point home. * The verb "depends" is a strong one too, and one that suggest a that whatever is being depended upon is a pretty big deal.
Line 2 upon * "Upon" – what a pretty preposition. And an important one too. So important, in fact, that it gets its very own line. * Visually (on the page) the first line of the poem (which is way longer than this line) actually looks like it's resting upon the "upon" of line two. The first line depends upon this second line. Hehe.
Line 3 a red wheel * A brand new couplet. We're dying to know what "so much" depends upon – drum roll, please. So much depends upon "a red wheel." * A red wheel? We haven't seen too many red wheels in our days. * The use of the word "red" really gets our imaginations going, for some reason. We hear the word "red" all the time, but for some reason, this color really sticks out in this poem. Why do you think that is?
Line 4 barrow * Oh! It's a red "wheelbarrow," not a red wheel. Our speaker just chose to split the word "wheel" and "barrow" up and didn't put a dash between them. * By splitting up the two pieces of this word, our speaker makes us think about the fact that a wheelbarrow is composed of two distinct parts: the wheel and the barrow (the part you load stuff into). In some ways, we feel like this couplet looks like a
Our speaker reflects on how important a certain red wheelbarrow is. This wheelbarrow is wet from a recent rain, and there happen to be white chickens hanging out with the wheelbarrow. The End.
The Red Wheelbarrow Summary
Line 1 so much depends * Our speaker doesn't say "much depends" or "things depend" or "I depend," he says "so much depends." That "so" makes us feel the gravity of the situation. It's as though our speaker really wants and needs to drive the point home. * The verb "depends" is a strong one too, and one that suggest a that whatever is being depended upon is a pretty big deal.
Line 2 upon * "Upon" – what a pretty preposition. And an important one too. So important, in fact, that it gets its very own line. * Visually (on the page) the first line of the poem (which is way longer than this line) actually looks like it's resting upon the "upon" of line two. The first line depends upon this second line. Hehe.
Line 3 a red wheel * A brand new couplet. We're dying to know what "so much" depends upon – drum roll, please. So much depends upon "a red wheel." * A red wheel? We haven't seen too many red wheels in our days. * The use of the word "red" really gets our imaginations going, for some reason. We hear the word "red" all the time, but for some reason, this color really sticks out in this poem. Why do you think that is?
Line 4 barrow * Oh! It's a red "wheelbarrow," not a red wheel. Our speaker just chose to split the word "wheel" and "barrow" up and didn't put a dash between them. * By splitting up the two pieces of this word, our speaker makes us think about the fact that a wheelbarrow is composed of two distinct parts: the wheel and the barrow (the part you load stuff into). In some ways, we feel like this couplet looks like a