"My father used to say that to me all the time as a child. It was the only English he knew. Some silly poem. It meant very much to him. I use it as a reminder of him, and a reminder of what I never want to become." Bless you if you know the reference.
So let's focus. Observing a red wheelbarrow sitting in a barnyard glistening from rain from a recent rain fall. The chickens are outside running about so we know the storm has passed. The wheelbarrow is instrumental in cleaning out the chicken coups and other farm work. So, it is sitting outside just waiting there waiting for it to be used again. A moment in a day on a farm is captured. Getting to the very essence of the poem. So let's rename the poem. "A Moment on a Day on a Farm with a Red Wheelbarrow" The Chickens represent sustenance. The Wheelbarrow an everyday farm implement that is used on the farm. The wheelbarrow is sitting outside representing resilience and everyday use. The chickens being front and center indicates the importance of the chickens to the people on the farm for sustenance and possibly sale, a major involvement in their life.
When I heard this poem (in Mr Robot...) I interpreted it as 'juste one single thing that doesn't seem that important can actually be very important' like the red wheelbarrow is just an object on a corner under rain, with chickens around it. But it is something where lot of stuff depend on.
I've never seen a comment regarding the fact that visually each 4 stanzer is a wheel barrow. The wheels are upon, barrow, water, and chickens. While the handles are, it depends, wheel, with rain and, the white,
Thank you so much for the great explanation.. I got this poem as my presentation but I was to irritated that its very short and it has nothing else to be presented.. but you help me alot to change my mind .. thank you so much again 💓
Your explanation about the background of this poem is something very new to me. Do you have any book recommendations to learn more about poetry (or art in general)?
Nice analyis. Maybe it's helpful to just read the poem for what is: a poem, so, read it as slowly as you can and discover the rhythm in the syllables, the lines, the line breaks. Doing so may well help towards establishing the image's immediacy, maybe even accepting its mystery for what it is. In the end that's what so much anywhere depends on...
I am confused. I saw this tied to a painting. Glazed with rain. A storm has passed. Chickens are sustenance. The Wheelbarrow is used to clean out the chicken coups. A wheelbarrow is used all the time on a farm. It is utilitarian that can be left outside. The painting I saw it with sent out all kinds of signals.
Thanks for the video. I'm not very good at understanding English poetry or interpreting it, for that matter, and yet, ironically enough, I tend to read too much into every single poem I read, always looking for diverse and deeper meanings, and still am never satisfied enough. But this one particular poem is/was an exception: years ago when one of my close friends emailed it to me I was just hypnotized by how "beautifully naked" this short poem is. Soon as I read it I couldn't help but finding myself electrified by the sharp and crisp imagery of the poem that simply stood out (imagism). I was feeling arrested for the first time in my life by discovering firsthand how a poem could beautifully defy any interpretations, hidden or obvious, and "just be!" And lastly, I think, The Red Wheelbarrow can be a very good instance of what Billy Collins is trying to tell us in/by his An Introduction To Poetry!
I am saying this before watching the video but I interpreted the poem as a sort of loss of innocence, an ode to childhood. So much depends on, a red wheelbarrow, the red wheelbarrow representing an important moment during childhood. Glazed with rainwater representing sorrow. And beside the white chickens displaying purity and innocence because of their color. So much depends on childhood.
This poem has haunted me for years since my teacher told us she wrote her thesis paper on it
"My father used to say that to me all the time as a child. It was the only English he knew. Some silly poem. It meant very much to him. I use it as a reminder of him, and a reminder of what I never want to become."
Bless you if you know the reference.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Chris. At some level it is a silly poem. :)
@Imperial. Hello, friend.
If it weren't for Tyrrell I probably would've never heard this poem in my life
@Imperial ikr! Don't know why but it feels very beautiful, I find myself randomly reciting it at times
@Imperial 😂😂
I think it shows the magic of words. Words alone create an indelible image in one's mind.
So let's focus. Observing a red wheelbarrow sitting in a barnyard glistening from rain from a recent rain fall. The chickens are outside running about so we know the storm has passed. The wheelbarrow is instrumental in cleaning out the chicken coups and other farm work. So, it is sitting outside just waiting there waiting for it to be used again. A moment in a day on a farm is captured. Getting to the very essence of the poem. So let's rename the poem. "A Moment on a Day on a Farm with a Red Wheelbarrow" The Chickens represent sustenance. The Wheelbarrow
an everyday farm implement that is used on the farm.
The wheelbarrow is sitting outside representing resilience and everyday use. The chickens being front and center indicates the importance of the chickens to the people on the farm for sustenance and possibly sale, a major involvement in their life.
You my friend are a life saver!
When I heard this poem (in Mr Robot...) I interpreted it as 'juste one single thing that doesn't seem that important can actually be very important' like the red wheelbarrow is just an object on a corner under rain, with chickens around it. But it is something where lot of stuff depend on.
YES MAKES SENSE, THANK YOU!
POV: you search this for class
You've ended my mental breakdown tysm
Yup and I have no idea how to go about this ._.
I did not
Yoooo this is so true. Poems aren’t my specialty.
I search this for mr robot
I've never seen a comment regarding the fact that visually each 4 stanzer is a wheel barrow. The wheels are upon, barrow, water, and chickens. While the handles are, it depends, wheel, with rain and, the white,
Yes, I’ve noticed this too, both the visual depiction of a wheelbarrow in each stanza, and the puzzling lack of others noticng or discussing it.
Thanks for the video! Loved how you explained everything!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for the great explanation.. I got this poem as my presentation but I was to irritated that its very short and it has nothing else to be presented.. but you help me alot to change my mind .. thank you so much again 💓
Thank you for this! I needed this to kinda think more openly about this
You're welcome!
Your explanation about the background of this poem is something very new to me. Do you have any book recommendations to learn more about poetry (or art in general)?
It's stuff like this that really just makes me loathe the thing I love.
This is very helpful! Thanks a lot
Nice analyis. Maybe it's helpful to just read the poem for what is: a poem, so, read it as slowly as you can and discover the rhythm in the syllables, the lines, the line breaks. Doing so may well help towards establishing the image's immediacy, maybe even accepting its mystery for what it is. In the end that's what so much anywhere depends on...
Good point. It's definitely important to just enjoy the poem!
im here because of Mr.robot
hehehe
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Rupi Kaur
approves..
drink water
Armstrong & Getty brought me here.
I am confused. I saw this tied to a painting. Glazed with rain. A storm has passed. Chickens are sustenance. The Wheelbarrow is used to clean out the chicken coups. A wheelbarrow is used all the time on a farm. It is utilitarian that can be left outside. The painting I saw it with sent out all kinds of signals.
It is about the red wheelbarrow and it will teach you how to learn about the red wheelbarrow
Thanks for the video. I'm not very good at understanding English poetry or interpreting it, for that matter, and yet, ironically enough, I tend to read too much into every single poem I read, always looking for diverse and deeper meanings, and still am never satisfied enough. But this one particular poem is/was an exception: years ago when one of my close friends emailed it to me I was just hypnotized by how "beautifully naked" this short poem is. Soon as I read it I couldn't help but finding myself electrified by the sharp and crisp imagery of the poem that simply stood out (imagism). I was feeling arrested for the first time in my life by discovering firsthand how a poem could beautifully defy any interpretations, hidden or obvious, and "just be!" And lastly, I think, The Red Wheelbarrow can be a very good instance of what Billy Collins is trying to tell us in/by his An Introduction To Poetry!
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the crispness of the imagery has a beauty in itself!
Good
Dear Sir Can u give us any PDF summary about this poem in description.
Sorry, don't have a PDF summary. But the video isn't that long ... :)
@@thenatureofwriting9222 ok
In other words, this poem refuses to mean anything
Mr paccione 😼
"The poum"
I am saying this before watching the video but I interpreted the poem as a sort of loss of innocence, an ode to childhood. So much depends on, a red wheelbarrow, the red wheelbarrow representing an important moment during childhood. Glazed with rainwater representing sorrow. And beside the white chickens displaying purity and innocence because of their color. So much depends on childhood.
And has watching the video changed your perspective? :)
funy poem
Mr robot 🤖
can you speak sinhala
plZ help me
Good grief this is a lot of talk about a very short poem!
Yep, that's what English profs are good at. :)
Garbage poem. Thanks for sharing it though
Haha -- but so much depends on that wheelbarrow! :)
saying that it's garbage is not nice. It actually is really interesting. No offense by the way
Silly meaningless words no poem...but nonsense