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1. As an imagist poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow" contains just one sentence with three imags: red wheelbarrow, rain water and white chickens. Why do you think the poet break the one sentence into lines of three words and one word?
2. What 'depends on' the red wheelbarrow? In other words, what does the wheelbarrow means? A mere useful tool for transportation of dirt? Does only cleanliness of the farmhouse, or its farm works, depend on the red wheelbarrow? Or much more?
3. Despite the line breaks, the images in the poem are interconnected with the words "depends on," "glazed with" and "beside." Instead of focusing on the wheelbarrow, then, we can discuss how its meanings get extended through symbolic associations. What would this agrarian image be connected with, or symbolic of?
(Please see the Study Guide for more symbolic readings.)
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