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The Red Wheelbarrow
by
William Carlos Williams
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The Red Wheelbarrow Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay
There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.
Farm Stuff
Line 1-2: The word "depends" makes us think that this is one special wheelbarrow, and we almost feel like the wheelbarrow is being personified at this moment.Line 3-4: Our speaker uses enjambment t...
Nature
Line 1: We don't know about you, but we hear alliteration in the first line, thanks to all of those "s" sounds. These sounds make us think about the sound of rain.Line 5: The assonance of that long...