Friday, May 9, 2008

The Red Wheelbarrow poetry 2

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams



so much depends

upon



a red wheel

barrow



glazed with rain

water



beside the white

chickens.



What's not to like about a poem that looks like it says so little but actually says so much more. Williams did a great job organizing this poem. He has three words in the first line of every stanza and then that is followed by one word in the next. The poem could be one sentence if you were to read it out loud but he found a way to separate it into four separate stanzas.

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