The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
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At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Farms, farmers, or farming, Animals, Water, Light, Sun, Rain, Tools
The Work
“The Red Wheelbarrow” is perhaps one of the shortest serious poems ever published by an American poet. The structure is rigidly formal. The poem consists of four miniature stanzas of four words each.
so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwater
(The entire page is 589 words.)
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