upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
-William Carlos Willaims
Can this really be poetry? Yes I think it can, although it is easy to dismiss because it seems so short and simple. We need take another look at the author and the form of the poetic piece. I know that Williams crowned himself the task of reinvigorating American poetry by bring it back in touch with every day life.(Monte) With this in mind lets look at the poem again. What he is doing, is seeing the true poetry in a simple red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water besides the white chickens. In a sense he is calling out to the reader to slow down and notice the beauty in all things. Even the form of the poem makes the reader slow down when reading it. By putting a few words in each line and spacing them far apart it makes it hard to read fast. I think the real message in this poem is to understand the beauty of life in its most uncomplex forms. Stop, Slow down, What is really there?