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Leslie Eigle Blog Post #10

Leslie Eigle Blog Post #10

copas

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens

I think what Williams sees as he captures the moment of a dripping wet, red wheel barrow next to white chickens is a memory. The poem is structured as if he is trying to describe what he physically sees while thinking of a memory simultaneously.  It’s similar to that of someone stopping in the middle of a sentence because something else has caught their attention. The memory may be positive, possibly a playful childhood moment, or it may be negatively associated with a bad day the poet experienced with the red wheel barrow and the chickens. So much of it depends on what Williams personally feels and thinks of while reading this poem, or seeing a wet, red wheel barrow, beside white chickens.

 

so much depends

upon

a dark blue soccer

bag

that wreaks of

sweat

and carries a pair of worn out

copas

which really smell of

victory

 

 

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