Write a 5 page essay on Close Reading and Examination of the Poem Red Wheelbarrow.Download file to see previous pages... The poem focuses on an objective depiction of an object. When broken down, the

Write a 5 page essay on Close Reading and Examination of the Poem Red Wheelbarrow.

The poem focuses on an objective depiction of an object. When broken down, the subject of the poem is “so much,” the object is "the red wheelbarrow" the verb is “depends.” This implies that the author’s main focus is on the wheelbarrow and the importance attached to it. Form and similarities with haiku William’s The Red Wheelbarrow is composed of a single sentence broken down into four couplets (Williams par 1). It features only 14 words and 19 syllables. On its sentence form, the poem reads "so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens." This piece of work resembles haiku because of its few syllables. This poem mimics the Japanese haiku called haiqua because each of the lines is 1-3 words long. Just like in haiku, the poet is very objective. It uses an economy of words to explain many big things but without speaking on the details of each one of them. Williams prioritizes this than personalizing the image of the reader just as the authors of many haiku poems do. Stanza arrangement The poem features four stanzas, each with three words in the first line and one on the second. If the poem was written as one sentence across the page, the reader would move quickly through the sentence. However, breaking the poem into six short lines helps the reader to pause at the end of each line-break and at the end of each stanza to contemplate on their possible meanings and, the interconnections between the stanzas and all the components of the poem. The stanza arrangement has also been used by the poet as a tool of capturing attention and this is evident in the first line of each stanza. The stanzas of the poem are also arranged in a manner that it helps the reader to point out the independent existence of the various components of the poem as well as the possible connections between them. For example, he puts wheel and barrow, rain and water, and white and chicken in different lines to suggests that every detail in the poem exists independently. The wheel and barrow can exist differently but both are important if used together. Uncapitalized letters in the poem The author of the poem has written the whole poem in lower case and this suggests his view of equality among all the various components of the poem, none of them is superior or more important than the other. This sends a message to those who depend on the red wheelbarrow that they should attach more meaning and value the red wheelbarrow just as they do value themselves. For example, the wheel that pulls the barrow is as important as the barrow because it provides a point of attachment for the wheel. This means meaning can only be derived when the two function together. So much depends upon Although the poem does not have a specific or actual subject, the “so much” represents its abstract subject. The use of so much instead of an actual subject is a strategic device used by the author to stimulate the readers to imagine the many possible things that could depend upon the wheelbarrow. When taken literarily, a wheelbarrow is a human tool which is used to accomplish many important tasks like transporting building materials, farm tools and products, ferrying water, offloading various inputs.