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Unit 17 The Red Wheelbarrow 红色手推车 He was an American poet and writer . He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician. He was closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He met and befriended Ezra Pound, and was influenced by Pound. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Red WheelbarrowWilliam Carlos Williams So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. The Red Wheelbarrow is a poem considered the masterwork of William Carlos Williams. the weight of this brief poem rests entirely on the careful description of the thing itself, the actual wheelbarrow, which is not a symbol for anything, but simply exists as it is. Features: Sharp, Clear Images and Short, Direct Lines No ideas but in things Poetic Features of Williams` poems Relaxed colloquialism Vivid Presentation Eloquent passages of beautifully controlled rhythm and phrasing His subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. The Red Wheelbarrow 1?How does the first two lines differ from the other pairs of lines? 2?What is the most visually compelling word in each of the last three pairs of lines? 3?What is the meaning of “depends upon” in the first pair of lines? 2.Red,white and glazed rain water are the most visually compelling words .The colors stand out because of their contrast with each other: the white chickens contrast with the red wheelbarrow; the static contrast with the dynamic; living thing contrasts with object without life; natural object contrasts with man-made object. 1.Lines 1-2 The opening lines set the tone for the rest of the poem. Since the poem is composed of one sentence broken up at various intervals, it is truthful to say that so much depends upon each line of the poem. This is so because the form of the poem is also its meaning. And there is no subject in the first two lines, everything is rely on im