William Carlos Williams poetry is part of what scholars call Modernism (in art; in poetry). Below are two links you should look at before responding to these questions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams (Links to an external site.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_poetry (Links to an external site.)
One of the characteristics of modernist poetry is a conscious break with rhyme scheme, meter, and other features (syllabic count) that give a given poem a specific structure. In other words, the poems don’t have a pre-conceived structure they fit into. Read “The Red Wheelbarrow” a couple times, maybe three times. One of the features of this poem is how “open” of a reading it provides, meaning it can be interpreted many different ways. This openness of a poem can be liberating for the reader or not as appealing, depending on your preferences in poetry and art in general.
Answer these questions on a separate document and upload to Canvas.
1. What does the poem mean to you? Why? What aspects of the poem inform your interpretation of it?
2. How can “so much depend” on such a seemingly insignificant scene?
3. Do you white chickens have symbolic significance or are they just another item in the scene described by Williams? Why do you think they have symbolic significance or why do you think they do not?
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