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The most significant part of the poem is its use of basic and uninteresting ideas, added to the fact that there is no capitalization, to bring out a desire to look deeper into the poem. It gives readers no gratification for reading, and encourages them to analyze it. It lets the reader use their imagination to shape the meaning and story of them poem into how they see fit. It also could be trying to avert expectations and surprise the reader when they could be expecting something more grand.
When it came out could also show that it might’ve been done to stand out against the crowd of other poems.
Its next device is imagery and colors. The red color of the wheelbarrow is supposed to represent its power. The rainwater inside it could mean that
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