The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 7/29/2008)

[RetroLounge]

The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

William Carlos Williams

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:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

1. ...

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.



william carlos williams was just bloody brilliant -- i can't say how much i love his stuff.

[Westegg]

4. What I love is how WCW says anything, anything at all...

...can be the most important thing in the world, if you look at it right. It can be the thing so much depends upon. It can even be art.

I see a grey, chilly early spring morning at the end of March, the earth soaked as much by the last of the melting winter snows as by the rain that's falling.

[RetroLounge]

10. Yeah, it is pretty great...

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

2. ...

:hi:

[SidneyCarton]

3. The beauty of this poem is in its vivid minimalism

Ok, trying too hard to sound deep there. But I can see the wet yard, on a cloudy day, with the water beaded on the wheelbarrow. The chickens pecking around in the early morning cool. Amazing what a poem can describe.

[RetroLounge]

11. exactly!

Thanks for commenting!

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

5. ...

:kick:

[XemaSab]

6. And you didn't tell the class the back story of this poem.

:P

[RetroLounge]

7. Is there one?

:shrug:

RL

[XemaSab]

8. There is

He was a pediatrician, and he wrote the poem outside the house of a dying child.

(Or so the story goes.)

[BlueIris]

9. Kick.