Ette The Red Wheelbarrow
much depends
so
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
5
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
QUESTIONS
The speaker asserts that so much depends upon" the objects he refers to,
kading the reader to ask: How much and why? This glimpse of a farm scene
implies one kind of answer. What is the importance of the wheelbarrow, rain,
and chicken to a farmer? To all of us?
What further importance can you infer from the references to color, shape,
texture, and the juxtaposition of objects? Does the poem itself have a
shape? What two ways of observing and valuing the world does the poem
imply?

Me which theme is developed by the changing relationship between the narrator and his daughter in this excerpt ? as she grew older, she spent more of her time with girls. so much time indeed did she spend with them that she came no more, as she used to do, to her father’s room. i was scarcely on speaking terms with her. when mini and her father stop communicating, it develops the theme that children should not speak unless spoken to. as mini becomes more independent, it develops the theme that parents must learn to let go as their children grow up. as mini spends more time with friends, it develops the theme that young people are more influenced by peers than by parents. when mini and her father see each other far less often, it develops the theme that absence makes the heart grow fonder.