Not just the
red
wheel
barrow
but rain, white
chickens.
(c) C J Heyworth
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
Not just the
red
wheel
barrow
but rain, white
chickens.
(c) C J Heyworth
A poem which changed life utterly for me is the when-published untitled short observation by William Carlos Williams nowadays often referred to as The Red Wheelbarrow.
It and the two words That vase at the close of Philip Larkin's Home Is So Sad turned me away from the dense undergrowth of so much British poetry studied in schools for chiefly examination purposes and towards simplicity and the significance of close observation.
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