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William Carlos Williams 'Poem The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Red Wheelbarrow was an interesting poem, one because it's short and was able to keep my attention for the 4 lines of text, two because it seemed to combine the two popular prose styles of romanticism and realism. William Carlos Williams utilizes a sense of realism by depicting a scene of an everyday red wheelbarrow on farm, but also romanticizes the wheel barrow in strange yet cool way. He puts the wheelbarrow, a simple yard tool, on pedestal by saying that "So much depends upon the red wheel barrow" and it made me realize he was right. He seems to be trying to make a point that even the simplest of items in your everyday life are vital, and that even if you may not be able to see its effect it is there. This made me think about all of

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