Red Wheelbarrow

Furthermore, poetry, and the personification of poetry, conversations with old friends and family, should not need a special occasion, rather it should “ride the bus” with patience for the stops before your own and the understanding of other’s needs before your own (line 13). You can also say the bus can represent the speed at which life passes you by and how easy it is to miss something if you are not paying attention, or even, that these missed moments have a poem to help you along your long journey home. With the use of

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

The speaker also chooses her diction precisely, so that there is clear contribution to the overall idea that the poem is indeed about the quest for change and longing from escape from the swamp. Two very different forms of description are used to represent this source of dread: once by the simple name, swamp, and

The setting of this poem is in a rural part of an unnamed Southern state, off of Highway 96 at Cherrylog Road. It is at the peak of a summer afternoon in a junkyard full of discarded automobiles. This setting affects the reader’s perception of this poem by using a hot southern junkyard with an active sun that is “eating the paint in blisters from a hundred car

The clever use of vocabulary to describe the digger assists the audience in visualising the digger, for example, “his body ached from the marching,” “the old digger then climbed to his feet” and the repeated use of the term “old digger”. The striking use of the words “ached” and “climbed” emphasize his age. The repeated use of the word hero, emphasises the theme of the poem. Hamilton also uses simple, but very effective language. The words and phrases are carefully chosen in this poem, making the poem easier to comprehend. Punctuation enhances the flow of the poem, such as the use of dashes after phrases for pauses. The use of direct speech throughout the poem offers depth to the poem, it immerses the audience into the moment and the conversation as though they were

From the beginning of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” the reader is captured by the statement “so much depends” (Williams line 1). As this short work continues the reader is seeing a graceful image that Williams creates. The mind’s eye can envision a painting that is tranquil, yet has the quiet activity of a rural farm home. With this in mind, what exactly is the author sharing with the reader? The poem communicates charmingly the dependence a man has for a vital piece of equipment.

Distinctively visual images have the ability to convey complex ideas and concepts about environments and people’s connection to places. The use of distinct images can cause individuals to reinforce their own perceptions or confront their value systems to perceive the world in a different way. In the postmodern Australian novella ‘Vertigo’ by Amanda Lohrey, distinctively visual images are used to convey the schism between urban and rural environments and how it impacts the Luke and Anna’s relationship. Additionally, Lohrey uses unique images to highlight Luke and Anna’s grief over their loss son also demonstrating the how the rural environment allows them to deal with their grief. Similarly I have used distinctively visual images in my collage

Initially, Oliver illustrates the speaker’s weary, overwhelming relationship with the swamp. Opening the poem, the speaker describes the swamp as the “endless wet thick cosmos” (2-3). As “wet” and “thick” create unpleasantness, the two being “endless” would foster misery in the

This poem while meant to be read aloud challenges the reader's comprehension and is packed full of imagery and euphemism which n turn

Imagery is the primary concept of this work. The two roads are each described in such a way that the reader can easy picture the

In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy, if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of

In the poem, "Red Wheelbarrow, the author William Carlos Williams used imagery throughout his poem. The three things that caught my attention in the poem, " Red Wheelbarrow" are the red wheelbarrow, the rain and the white chickens the author William Carlos Williams described in the poem. The wheelbarrow is red. The color red is a dominant color and it stands out. Although we do not know whether the wheelbarrow is or the location.

With the incoming years, the major change in the world is with transportation. On the Move, The Wiper, and The Express are all poems that are proof of the advance, ever changing world. Also in the Araby the boy uses a train. Not much is discussed about years in them, however it is important because the development of these transportations took years to develop. These poems are the outcome from all the years of development. Changes of the world have taken place during a course of many years.

Ordinary life is very repetitive and there are routines to follow or actions that we repeat often; this is captured by the reoccurring rhyme scheme which follows an ABAB CDCD. This perfectly captures everyday life we do not realize the routine we follow, alike the rhyme scheme which is clearly felt throughout the poem but isn’t noticed until a second reading or closer inspection of the poem. In addition, the use of a repetitive rhyme scheme shows a sense of mundanity, representing how the things (animals) in the poem are objectified and treated like a commodity – more specifically a toy – that is used to make money, or for entertainment purposes. A novelty that ‘soon wears off’, once it wears off, it is discarded of since it is only value is lost: ‘Fetch the shoebox, fetch the shovel’. This represents human nature in the sense of our short attention span and constant drive for new pleasures. Larkins repetition of the word ‘no’ in the first stanza emphasizes how there is an absence of care, or notice taken into it; it represents it as being the norm of the condition of

The central idea of Walt Whitman’s “A Song of the Rolling Earth” is a concern for words not classically found in books and for things that are said to be “words”. The poem also explains how this is linked with the idea of feminine and fertile earth. The entirety of “A Song of the Rolling Earth” Whitman lays groundwork for his theory of the earth, giving it a more than purely physical life by redefining what words are. The importance of the poem lies, within these two images, the unprintable word and the fertile earth.