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William Carlos Williams 'Red Wheelbarrow'

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My feelings and views have changed on poetry, since reading these poems. I didn’t realize there were different types of poetry writings such as concrete poetry, which uses words as well as varying type sizes and fonts. These types of poems give the readers a visual form to the poem. From the reading material in Unit 3, I learned how to read and understand a poem, such as “Red Wheelbarrow”, written by William Carlos Williams, in 1923. When I first read this poem, I just read it. I didn’t understand this poem “used synesthesia, which is a special use of imagery that occurs when one sense is described in terms of another sense”(Kirszner, 2014). It’s such a short poem, but yet I was able to get more from it, by imagining the red wheelbarrow, that’s
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