William Carlos Williams 'Red Wheelbarrow'
The saying goes, a picture can paint a thousand words, but can the same feat be applied to a short poem containing just one sentence? This seems so cause during 1932, William Carlos Williams wrote a minimalist masterpiece, “Red Wheelbarrow”. Upon first impressions there’s not much information to take in. The only distinctive phrases that catches the reader’s eye initially is the countryside image that is applied to the scenery, along with the red wheelbarrow and white chickens. Although initially the reader sees the four stanzas separately, it’s not until further analysis of the poem that one starts to realize that each word plays a critical role in capturing the scenery that Williams paints for the reader. Through the use of imagery, symbolism
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A color is included in this stanza just as second, though this time it’s white. The reason to mention the colors is because a pattern starts to become obvious upon analyzing the poem. This pattern is the colors that the poet is able to paint in the readers minds and helps immerse the readers to perceive the story and meaning of the poem. Such an example is the red wheelbarrow, for the most part red is distinguished as a warm color. Then there’s the “rain/water” which in most cases is coincided with the color blue, but the reason the two words were cut or kept from being one is because they each have their meaning. In this case we know the wheelbarrow is wet from the recent rainfall, but it’s to also give it a sense of coolness by being glazed in water. To add on, the inclusion of rain is to symbolize the overall story and message being told. This is for the primary reason that rain is mentioned in the text not only to provide a vivid picture for the audience but symbolize that the darkness that comes along with nature at times, eventually goes away just as everything else in life. This is an essential part in the poem as well, life. There was darkness before but the sun shines and the chickens are out again, life is beautiful, and though it might not seem like at during the heat of the moment but there’s always going sunshine sooner or
A color is included in this stanza just as second, though this time it’s white. The reason to mention the colors is because a pattern starts to become obvious upon analyzing the poem. This pattern is the colors that the poet is able to paint in the readers minds and helps immerse the readers to perceive the story and meaning of the poem. Such an example is the red wheelbarrow, for the most part red is distinguished as a warm color. Then there’s the “rain/water” which in most cases is coincided with the color blue, but the reason the two words were cut or kept from being one is because they each have their meaning. In this case we know the wheelbarrow is wet from the recent rainfall, but it’s to also give it a sense of coolness by being glazed in water. To add on, the inclusion of rain is to symbolize the overall story and message being told. This is for the primary reason that rain is mentioned in the text not only to provide a vivid picture for the audience but symbolize that the darkness that comes along with nature at times, eventually goes away just as everything else in life. This is an essential part in the poem as well, life. There was darkness before but the sun shines and the chickens are out again, life is beautiful, and though it might not seem like at during the heat of the moment but there’s always going sunshine sooner or