The Red Wheelbarrow poem didn’t have as much detail as the Queen Anne’s Lace poem. The wheelbarrow poem was very simple, but interesting. In the second poem I lost interest because there was too much detail. The author could have included a little less detail in the Queen poem and it would have made it better. These poems were very different, but came from the same author.
After reading the two poems, by William Carlos Williams, I came to a conclusion that the two pieces of poetry were very dissimilar. The first poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, was short and sweet, but lacked in detail. I liked how the author put a clear picture into the reader’s mind what the poem’s meaning was, unlike most poems that tend to get confusing with similes and metaphors. What I also liked about this poem that was different from the second poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, was that the words had a pattern for the amount of words per line. In the poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, there is much more detail. William Carlos Williams describes everything about the scene in the poem. He also makes the reader think about what they are reading and what certain lines mean and what point he is trying to make. I think that both of these poems are extremely different from each other in every which way. I am very surprised that the author, considering the variation, wrote both of these poems. It really shows how uniquely different poems can be.
I believe the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” is all about the changes that occur in the wheelbarrow. With each line, it becomes a bit different and thus creates a beautiful, ever-changing painting. The first image that came to my mind was a plain, neglected looking wheelbarrow sitting against a wall. Suddenly, it turned red! The red wheelbarrow then proceeded to turn glossy, as it would after being rained upon, and also moved outdoors, because that is where it would be rained on. Lastly, another color came in; white. I imagined white chickens pecking around a bright and shiny red wheelbarrow on a farm. Ultimately, the wheelbarrow started out alone and sad, and turned bright and beautiful. “Queen Anne’s Lace” was a bit different. In this poem, I felt Williams was describing the flower as if it were Queen Anne herself. How she and the flower were so beautifully pale and each had the same purple mole. The line about how no grass would rise above her made me think of her power. Although I know little of Queen Anne herself, this poem gives me the idea that she was a woman of great power, who rose above all else as the flower does above grass. One of the last lines; however, left me thinking. It implies that there was someone beating her down, and that wherever his hand was there was a tiny purple blemish which blossomed her being. So this line made me wonder whether this person beating her down was damaging her or making her stronger. Consequently, these poems use the power of image and personification to make one think. “Queen Anne’s Lace,” describes the power of a seemingly delicate flower, while “The Red Wheelbarrow,” uses color to personify an innocent wheelbarrow, and make it intense.
I really enjoyed both of the poems. The red wheelbarrow is a very short poem, but it still has lots of detail. In both of the poems, he is good at describing the colors and the texture of the items. I feel like I can almost feel the red wheelbarrow and the lace with my hands. I noticed that he uses the word white in description in both of the poems. For example “beside the white chickens.” In The Red Wheelbarrow and “Here is no question of whiteness, white as can be” and “Each flower is a hand's span of her whiteness” in the next poem. I’m not sure if the color white is supposed to have some sort of symbolism in the poems or not.
The two poems The Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace share many ideas, but also differ quite a bit. Williams uses the power of description to convey his message in each of his poems, but took different approaches. In Queen Anne’s Lace, he writes a long poem about Queen Anne and how her lace is not too beautifully white or smooth, but describes it as a unique flowery design. How he describes her fabrics convinces me that she is not a regular Queen with pale white clothing, but one that has intricate designs on her attire. His description indicates that she is a very prominent woman, wearing only the finest clothes. The Red Wheelbarrow is the complete opposite of this poem. William does not illustrate this poem as beautiful and elaborate as the other. In four stanzas, he gets his point across about portraying a red wheelbarrow. Williams’ style of writing in these two poems proves to be unalike, causing the reader to always expect something different. He conveys the same implications in each of his poems but in dissimilar ways.
Kat Norton 9/19/11 9 Post English William Carlos Williams Poem Response I really enjoyed the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. I liked how it was very short and to the point but still succeeded in painting a picture in my head of the exact scene. I found it very easy to see the red wheelbarrow glazed with rain next to the white chickens. The one thing that left me wondering was what depended on it. What does depend on a red wheelbarrow? Maybe since there was chickens it was a farm and the wheelbarrow was used for chores everyday. I really liked how this decision was left to the reader with some subtle details to get them to their conclusion. I didn’t enjoy the poem “Queen Annes Lace” as much as I enjoyed “The Red Wheelbarrow.” I found it very wordy and hard to follow. I was confused in the beginning about how the poem started off with her. At first glance I thought that he was talking about the flower, but in the rest of the poem he did not refer to it as she. The one thing that I liked about the poem was that it described Queen Annes Lace very nicely. It made it sound very elegant and not the pretty weed that it actually is.
Williams’ poems are very different from Billy Collins’. They are more effective and thought evoking, and not as funny. Williams also seems to use a lot of metaphor in his poems. I enjoyed reading “The Red Wheelbarrow” because it was short, so it does not loose your attention. I also liked the way he wrote it in short stanzas to affect the way it is read.
Both of these poems by William Carlos Williams are very different. They differ in length, description, tone of voice and they are worded differently. But it makes them both unique. “The Red Wheel barrow” is short and sweet, the words he chose let’s me vividly imagine the wheelbarrow and the scene, which he depicts with the few words. However, “Queen-Anne’s-Lace” is longer and much more descriptive. I read both of the poems aloud to myself, and my tone of voice changed when I read this one. I liked how William Carlos Williams kept repeating the word white or whiteness throughout the poem. It helped me to imagine and picture everything better when I kept hearing white over and over again. It seemed like he was trying to make a point, and make sure we knew it was white and how important that was to the poem.
The Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace seemed, at first glance, to be very different poems, but once I read them thoroughly, they had a lot in common. The Red Wheelbarrow was a short, straightforward poem that seemed to be about a red wheelbarrow that was the primary water source for chickens. The wheelbarrow is important because it is what keeps the chickens alive, and that’s what the poem means when it states, “so much depends upon.” The other poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, was more confusing to figure out. Queen Anne’s Lace is a white flower with a reddish purple flower in the middle. At first, the poem appears to be describing this flower, but when read more carefully it starts describing a woman. Queen Anne’s Lace seems to be about a woman that has had sexual relations with a man because the poem describes that she may seem perfect and beautiful from far away, but up close you notice that she is impure, just like the flower. These poems are similar because they create vivid pictures. In The Red Wheelbarrow it is easy to picture chickens drinking from the wheelbarrow by reading William Carlos Williams’s short poem. The author describes the white flower with its purple blemish impecably in Queen Anne’s Lace, which also helps to create an image of the woman. Although it required more thinking to conjure an image of this woman, not all poems have clear descriptions like these two. On the other hand, the poems had some differences. The Red Wheelbarrow was effective because it was simple and easy to understand. Queen Anne’s Lace was more thought provoking, but turned out to be interesting because of its unique subject. I thought that both poems were effective in different ways.
After reading both The Red Wheelbarrow, and Queen –Anne’s – Lace, by William Carlos Williams there is no doubt that these works of art are both in extremely different categories of description and effectiveness. Although I enjoyed both, I felt as if and Queen –Anne’s – Lace had more to offer the reader in multiple ways. One of these was its length, I am aware that poems can be short and sweet, but The Red Wheelbarrow, was so miniscule that it had a very short amount of time to get a message across or almost anything else. A second way that Queen –Anne’s – Lace was written in a way with a much more extensive vocabulary, pushing the reader to dive much more into the subject. Overall, although I found pleasure in reading them both, Queen –Anne’s – Lace had greater effectiveness and descriptions, making me appreciate it much more.
In my opinion, The Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace both have a similar purpose in their meanings, but mean different things. Both poems subject an ordinary object (a red wheel barrow, and a flower) and use it as a metaphor for an everyday topic. I interpreted The Red Wheelbarrow to be a symbol for a symbol of human dependence on material objects. There is always something that we fill we need in order to do something- every day examples include computers, cars, telephones, hardware, even kitchen utensils. But do computers write messages for us? To cars just automatically drive us places, or do knives just cut steak on their own? No, they need human actions in order to perform. The line “so much depends on the red wheelbarrow” is significant because normally, a wheelbarrow is always carrying something or transporting something on a usual basis, and has so much importance in the process of getting tasks done, but when it isn’t in use as the poem describes it, it has no function at all. Queen Anne’s Lace describes something completely different, but in a similar style to The Red Wheelbarrow. This type of flower has pure white petals, but a purple center. I find that Queen Anne’s Lace symbolizes the crosses between virginity and purity with sin and prurience. The white petals hold the connotation of innocence of a woman, which is depicted as a virgin, while purple center represents the obscenity of sexual actions. I find that the image of a flower- petals, which serve as a cover, or blanket for the center, portray an innocent woman who has been raped or sexually violated against her own will. She is an innocent and decent person whose virginity, pride, honor, and even being have been bruised and ruined with unwilling abuse, which causes the center of her, to be scarred. I feel that the flower is a fantastic metaphor that describes the differences of purity and indecency.
I didn’t enjoy these poems very much. It may have been because I found them difficult to understand. These poems were so drastically different. “The Red Wheelbarrow” is so simple, yet “Queen Anne’s Lace” is so long and descriptive. Although I found “Queen Anne’s Lace” too complicated I still was able to picture it in my mind because of the authors descriptiveness. “White as can be, with a purple mole at the center of each flower.” I really like how he described the center of the flower as a purple mole instead of simply saying the center of the flower. I found that “The Red Wheelbarrow” was so simple that it was slightly dull to read.
These poems written by William Carlos Williams were very confusing to me. The Red Wheelbarrow poem was a very short and sweet poem where the Queen-Anne’s-Lace, poem was much longer and had much bigger and descriptive words. I thought that both of these poems were very hard to understand especially when one is short and one is long and very different. They are very different to me because I thought that The Red Wheelbarrow poem, one was very easy and simple to read, and the other poem was much harder and difficult to comprehend for me. It was longer, and it took me a couple of times for me to read it to understand. They were also very different because I think that the wheelbarrow poem really made me think more about what it meant than the Queen-Anne’s-Lace poem. They also contrast from each other because of the description each story goes into, because one was only a couple of lines and the other was several lines describing the subject. I thought they were equally the same and equally different poems from each other and they way they were written.
William Carlos Williams 9/19/11 English Olivia Silverman
The two poems that we read were very similar. They had a very distinct descriptive touch. In the red wheelbarrow poem, change was present. What the poem says to me is that change is everywhere around us. Change is even in the most casual places and maybe never even be expected. The Queen-Anne's-Lace poem poke to me even more so. The theme of this poem was superiotiry. It also showed me that even the most beautiful things have imperfections. In the poem, the way that it it described as the petals having purple dots really stood out to me. Together these poems are very unique because you have to really search for the meaning and understand very deeply how nature may work.
The two poems by William Carlos Williams were different, not them being different from each other, but from other poems i have read in my personal experience. Both were short, and provided a quick snapshot of a poem that could have gone on for longer, in short, it gave me a glimpse, almost a faint distant memory before going black and still. The detail in Queen Anne's lace provides a still image but for me, does a general picture, then a close up proceeded by side shots and wide angle views. The detail is painstakingly thought out and explained to perfection. The second poem, The Wheelbarrow reminded me of a personal experience something I think Williams is trying to make us portray the images he presents by effectively, almost subconsciously making us think before we know we are. His persuasiveness is almost intoxicating, overwhelming at points. I enjoyed these poems, because the were different, not from each other, but from most poems in the world.
The Red Wheelbarrow poem didn’t have as much detail as the Queen Anne’s Lace poem. The wheelbarrow poem was very simple, but interesting. In the second poem I lost interest because there was too much detail. The author could have included a little less detail in the Queen poem and it would have made it better. These poems were very different, but came from the same author.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the two poems, by William Carlos Williams, I came to a conclusion that the two pieces of poetry were very dissimilar. The first poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, was short and sweet, but lacked in detail. I liked how the author put a clear picture into the reader’s mind what the poem’s meaning was, unlike most poems that tend to get confusing with similes and metaphors. What I also liked about this poem that was different from the second poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, was that the words had a pattern for the amount of words per line. In the poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, there is much more detail. William Carlos Williams describes everything about the scene in the poem. He also makes the reader think about what they are reading and what certain lines mean and what point he is trying to make. I think that both of these poems are extremely different from each other in every which way. I am very surprised that the author, considering the variation, wrote both of these poems. It really shows how uniquely different poems can be.
ReplyDeleteI believe the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” is all about the changes that occur in the wheelbarrow. With each line, it becomes a bit different and thus creates a beautiful, ever-changing painting. The first image that came to my mind was a plain, neglected looking wheelbarrow sitting against a wall. Suddenly, it turned red! The red wheelbarrow then proceeded to turn glossy, as it would after being rained upon, and also moved outdoors, because that is where it would be rained on. Lastly, another color came in; white. I imagined white chickens pecking around a bright and shiny red wheelbarrow on a farm. Ultimately, the wheelbarrow started out alone and sad, and turned bright and beautiful.
ReplyDelete“Queen Anne’s Lace” was a bit different. In this poem, I felt Williams was describing the flower as if it were Queen Anne herself. How she and the flower were so beautifully pale and each had the same purple mole. The line about how no grass would rise above her made me think of her power. Although I know little of Queen Anne herself, this poem gives me the idea that she was a woman of great power, who rose above all else as the flower does above grass. One of the last lines; however, left me thinking. It implies that there was someone beating her down, and that wherever his hand was there was a tiny purple blemish which blossomed her being. So this line made me wonder whether this person beating her down was damaging her or making her stronger.
Consequently, these poems use the power of image and personification to make one think. “Queen Anne’s Lace,” describes the power of a seemingly delicate flower, while “The Red Wheelbarrow,” uses color to personify an innocent wheelbarrow, and make it intense.
I really enjoyed both of the poems. The red wheelbarrow is a very short poem, but it still has lots of detail. In both of the poems, he is good at describing the colors and the texture of the items. I feel like I can almost feel the red wheelbarrow and the lace with my hands. I noticed that he uses the word white in description in both of the poems. For example “beside the white chickens.” In The Red Wheelbarrow and “Here is no question of whiteness, white as can be” and “Each flower is a hand's span of her whiteness” in the next poem. I’m not sure if the color white is supposed to have some sort of symbolism in the poems or not.
ReplyDeleteThe two poems The Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace share many ideas, but also differ quite a bit. Williams uses the power of description to convey his message in each of his poems, but took different approaches. In Queen Anne’s Lace, he writes a long poem about Queen Anne and how her lace is not too beautifully white or smooth, but describes it as a unique flowery design. How he describes her fabrics convinces me that she is not a regular Queen with pale white clothing, but one that has intricate designs on her attire. His description indicates that she is a very prominent woman, wearing only the finest clothes. The Red Wheelbarrow is the complete opposite of this poem. William does not illustrate this poem as beautiful and elaborate as the other. In four stanzas, he gets his point across about portraying a red wheelbarrow. Williams’ style of writing in these two poems proves to be unalike, causing the reader to always expect something different. He conveys the same implications in each of his poems but in dissimilar ways.
ReplyDeleteKat Norton
ReplyDelete9/19/11
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William Carlos Williams Poem Response
I really enjoyed the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. I liked how it was very short and to the point but still succeeded in painting a picture in my head of the exact scene. I found it very easy to see the red wheelbarrow glazed with rain next to the white chickens. The one thing that left me wondering was what depended on it. What does depend on a red wheelbarrow? Maybe since there was chickens it was a farm and the wheelbarrow was used for chores everyday. I really liked how this decision was left to the reader with some subtle details to get them to their conclusion. I didn’t enjoy the poem “Queen Annes Lace” as much as I enjoyed “The Red Wheelbarrow.” I found it very wordy and hard to follow. I was confused in the beginning about how the poem started off with her. At first glance I thought that he was talking about the flower, but in the rest of the poem he did not refer to it as she. The one thing that I liked about the poem was that it described Queen Annes Lace very nicely. It made it sound very elegant and not the pretty weed that it actually is.
Williams’ poems are very different from Billy Collins’. They are more effective and thought evoking, and not as funny. Williams also seems to use a lot of metaphor in his poems. I enjoyed reading “The Red Wheelbarrow” because it was short, so it does not loose your attention. I also liked the way he wrote it in short stanzas to affect the way it is read.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these poems by William Carlos Williams are very different. They differ in length, description, tone of voice and they are worded differently. But it makes them both unique. “The Red Wheel barrow” is short and sweet, the words he chose let’s me vividly imagine the wheelbarrow and the scene, which he depicts with the few words. However, “Queen-Anne’s-Lace” is longer and much more descriptive. I read both of the poems aloud to myself, and my tone of voice changed when I read this one. I liked how William Carlos Williams kept repeating the word white or whiteness throughout the poem. It helped me to imagine and picture everything better when I kept hearing white over and over again. It seemed like he was trying to make a point, and make sure we knew it was white and how important that was to the poem.
ReplyDeleteThe Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace seemed, at first glance, to be very different poems, but once I read them thoroughly, they had a lot in common. The Red Wheelbarrow was a short, straightforward poem that seemed to be about a red wheelbarrow that was the primary water source for chickens. The wheelbarrow is important because it is what keeps the chickens alive, and that’s what the poem means when it states, “so much depends upon.” The other poem, Queen Anne’s Lace, was more confusing to figure out. Queen Anne’s Lace is a white flower with a reddish purple flower in the middle. At first, the poem appears to be describing this flower, but when read more carefully it starts describing a woman. Queen Anne’s Lace seems to be about a woman that has had sexual relations with a man because the poem describes that she may seem perfect and beautiful from far away, but up close you notice that she is impure, just like the flower.
ReplyDeleteThese poems are similar because they create vivid pictures. In The Red Wheelbarrow it is easy to picture chickens drinking from the wheelbarrow by reading William Carlos Williams’s short poem. The author describes the white flower with its purple blemish impecably in Queen Anne’s Lace, which also helps to create an image of the woman. Although it required more thinking to conjure an image of this woman, not all poems have clear descriptions like these two. On the other hand, the poems had some differences. The Red Wheelbarrow was effective because it was simple and easy to understand. Queen Anne’s Lace was more thought provoking, but turned out to be interesting because of its unique subject. I thought that both poems were effective in different ways.
After reading both The Red Wheelbarrow, and Queen –Anne’s – Lace, by William Carlos Williams there is no doubt that these works of art are both in extremely different categories of description and effectiveness. Although I enjoyed both, I felt as if and Queen –Anne’s – Lace had more to offer the reader in multiple ways. One of these was its length, I am aware that poems can be short and sweet, but The Red Wheelbarrow, was so miniscule that it had a very short amount of time to get a message across or almost anything else. A second way that Queen –Anne’s – Lace was written in a way with a much more extensive vocabulary, pushing the reader to dive much more into the subject. Overall, although I found pleasure in reading them both, Queen –Anne’s – Lace had greater effectiveness and descriptions, making me appreciate it much more.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, The Red Wheelbarrow and Queen Anne’s Lace both have a similar purpose in their meanings, but mean different things. Both poems subject an ordinary object (a red wheel barrow, and a flower) and use it as a metaphor for an everyday topic.
ReplyDeleteI interpreted The Red Wheelbarrow to be a symbol for a symbol of human dependence on material objects. There is always something that we fill we need in order to do something- every day examples include computers, cars, telephones, hardware, even kitchen utensils. But do computers write messages for us? To cars just automatically drive us places, or do knives just cut steak on their own? No, they need human actions in order to perform. The line “so much depends on the red wheelbarrow” is significant because normally, a wheelbarrow is always carrying something or transporting something on a usual basis, and has so much importance in the process of getting tasks done, but when it isn’t in use as the poem describes it, it has no function at all.
Queen Anne’s Lace describes something completely different, but in a similar style to The Red Wheelbarrow. This type of flower has pure white petals, but a purple center. I find that Queen Anne’s Lace symbolizes the crosses between virginity and purity with sin and prurience. The white petals hold the connotation of innocence of a woman, which is depicted as a virgin, while purple center represents the obscenity of sexual actions. I find that the image of a flower- petals, which serve as a cover, or blanket for the center, portray an innocent woman who has been raped or sexually violated against her own will. She is an innocent and decent person whose virginity, pride, honor, and even being have been bruised and ruined with unwilling abuse, which causes the center of her, to be scarred. I feel that the flower is a fantastic metaphor that describes the differences of purity and indecency.
I didn’t enjoy these poems very much. It may have been because I found them difficult to understand. These poems were so drastically different. “The Red Wheelbarrow” is so simple, yet “Queen Anne’s Lace” is so long and descriptive. Although I found “Queen Anne’s Lace” too complicated I still was able to picture it in my mind because of the authors descriptiveness. “White as can be, with a purple mole at the center of each flower.” I really like how he described the center of the flower as a purple mole instead of simply saying the center of the flower. I found that “The Red Wheelbarrow” was so simple that it was slightly dull to read.
ReplyDeleteThese poems written by William Carlos Williams were very confusing to me. The Red Wheelbarrow poem was a very short and sweet poem where the Queen-Anne’s-Lace, poem was much longer and had much bigger and descriptive words. I thought that both of these poems were very hard to understand especially when one is short and one is long and very different. They are very different to me because I thought that The Red Wheelbarrow poem, one was very easy and simple to read, and the other poem was much harder and difficult to comprehend for me. It was longer, and it took me a couple of times for me to read it to understand. They were also very different because I think that the wheelbarrow poem really made me think more about what it meant than the Queen-Anne’s-Lace poem. They also contrast from each other because of the description each story goes into, because one was only a couple of lines and the other was several lines describing the subject. I thought they were equally the same and equally different poems from each other and they way they were written.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Carlos Williams 9/19/11
ReplyDeleteEnglish Olivia Silverman
The two poems that we read were very similar. They had a very distinct descriptive touch.
In the red wheelbarrow poem, change was present. What the poem says to me is that change is everywhere around us. Change is even in the most casual places and maybe never even be expected.
The Queen-Anne's-Lace poem poke to me even more so. The theme of this poem was superiotiry. It also showed me that even the most beautiful things have imperfections. In the poem, the way that it it described as the petals having purple dots really stood out to me. Together these poems are very unique because you have to really search for the meaning and understand very deeply how nature may work.
The two poems by William Carlos Williams were different, not them being different from each other, but from other poems i have read in my personal experience. Both were short, and provided a quick snapshot of a poem that could have gone on for longer, in short, it gave me a glimpse, almost a faint distant memory before going black and still.
ReplyDeleteThe detail in Queen Anne's lace provides a still image but for me, does a general picture, then a close up proceeded by side shots and wide angle views. The detail is painstakingly thought out and explained to perfection.
The second poem, The Wheelbarrow reminded me of a personal experience something I think Williams is trying to make us portray the images he presents by effectively, almost subconsciously making us think before we know we are. His persuasiveness is almost intoxicating, overwhelming at points. I enjoyed these poems, because the were different, not from each other, but from most poems in the world.