Claire Barbour: Red Wheel Barrow

"So much depends upon a red wheel barrow..."

- This first stanza of the poem gives it a tone that allows it to be interpreted by the reader. What depends on it? and Why? This creates an broad area that one could fill in the blanks for themselves. Another aspect of the poem that stood out to be was the use of colors like red and white, his tactics all seem to create the feeling that he wants to leave the poem open for the reader to be able to fill the blanks in with his or her own thoughts and ideas. This poem paints a detailed picture but leaves the rest for the reader to finish.


- The tactic I learned from the Poem is that you can create a piece but not completely have all the questions answered. That it could be very beneficial to the reader if you simply allowed them to make up there own story. Although another thing I picked up from this poem is that the imagery they created was so strong yet the diction he used was quite simple. So in order to create strong imagery you can take simple words and be just as sucessful as if you were to use more complex words to build your picture.