Imagism
so much depends upon a red wheel with rain water beside the white chickens
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So much depends on a red wheelbarrow, glazed with rainwater, beside the white chickens.
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The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams →Williams strips a poem down to an object and a claim. Everything depends on the barrow — and the poem never says why.
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