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Why Would Anything Depend On A Red Wheelbarrow?
This poem has stood out to me ever since I first read it in the 7th grade, it has always been with me. Every time someone mentions a wheelbarrow I am instantly taken back to my 7th grade English class. I find that this poem is so memorable because it is short and seems simple but my teacher, at the time, first introduced this poem by giving everyone different slips of paper with words from the poem written on them. Her instructions were to put the papers into what we believed was the correct order for this poem. I found it especially hard because nothing seemed to truly fit together. I remember thinking, “Why would anything depend on a red wheelbarrow?”
I believe to Williams that everything does depend upon the red wheelbarrow. It seems to hold some special significance to him. To discover what he means regarding the “red wheelbarrow” you must research the life of William Carlos Williams. After learning more about Williams and what he did for a living and the theory of how he came up with the poem, I have concluded that so much indeed depended on this red wheelbarrow. However, it is hard to pinpoint exactly what Williams truly intended. There are a few theories I have gathered that may explain why this red wheelbarrow was so important. For example, it is the centerpiece of this painting …show more content…
Civilizations depended on this machine to aid them in completing their tasks. It is still used in the present time and, regarding Williams’s poem, families still rely on a red wheelbarrow to help them with their daily chores. It could be that he was thinking about the family that owned this red wheelbarrow and he was considering how much they may have relied upon it. It may have been the only thing of true value they owned. The wheelbarrow and chickens are symbols of farming which was and is a central part of maintaining
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