FREE ESSAY ON DISCUSS THE MEANING OF THE POEM

DISCUSS THE MEANING OF THE POEM

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(Iambic dimeter usually expresses energetic position of author)
This simple metrical pattern gives an illusion of simplicity of this poem. However, this
simplicity isn't that simple as reader can think. The Red Wheelbarrow is the poem about
life as a whole even though there is no people, action, and movement. All the reader has
is somebody who observes surroundings without any conclusion. The meaninglessness of the
content, in the first view, confuses readers and that stimulates them to think about
possible meanings more deeply. Stressful words " upon", "barrow", "water", "chickens" are
archetypal so the special line stresses them out. The author doesn't use rhymes, instead,
he create the poem not only for ears, but also for eyes. Impressionistic motives of the
poem associate with certain time and art tendencies that give the glue to the meanings of
the poem. The Red Wheelbarrow is clearly modern poem where poet experiments with rhymes,
metrical patterns and meanings in order to get reader's attention. Author points that
there is not irrelevant details in the world and in the life when such a trivial picture
can influent philosophical thoughts. Absense of the capital letters proves this
intention.
Moreover, there is one more literary illusion: the genre of Japanese poetry, hokku, even
though, the poetic form of The Red Wheelbarrow isn't authentic to the ancient genre.
According to the definition of hokku or haiku in Britannica, "the form was restricted in
subject matter to an objective description of nature suggestive of one of the seasons,
evoking a definite, though unstated, emotional response. Later its subject range was
broadened, but it remained an art of expressing much and suggesting more in the fewest
possible words", reader can confirm that author of the Red Wheelbarrow has the same goals
as Japanese poets. As the poetic form suggests, reader has to build his own meaning of
the poem to fulfill the images.