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Poem Analysis: 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
In the poems by William Carlos Williams, have to be some of the most unique, of course anyone can say that, but what is so unique about them is the if you play an instrumental of any of your favorites songs. William's, poem things start to get really interesting. The first poem that I noticed was really short, but boy it has a strong effect that most readers will miss on. In the pome "The Red Wheelbarrow" might be short but so much of it depends all the wheelbarrow because it seems to be the theme of the poem and carries this at the end. However, there is more when reading this poem lets try to paint a mental picture of the poem what will be the first thing that catches ours eyes? For me it was the red wheelbarrow following by white chickens which makes us look around for those white chicken in our head, but they are beside wheelbarrow. …show more content…
Its starts off by saying "let the snake wait under the grass," going to the metaphor of snakes in the grass like a girl/boy friend that is waiting to strike at any moment. William, also uses the word "weed" instead of grass something that is more disgraceful and is pest in our society and living areas. However, the speaker of the poem is a "saxifrage" a flower that frogs under mountains especially ones that have had lava over them.
In the poem "Queen-Anne's-Lace," describes perhaps a women that the is not sore pure any more by this I mean that her chastity might have been taken away and has been sleeping with multiple people, because "her body is not white," she is no longer pure in any form not event "grass" fresh life seems to form around her. The speaker also says things about spots being created on her skin might indicate the times the queen has been with others and thus her flower is

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