"The Red Wheelbarrow" is an example of Imagist Poetry. This poem is described as “doing exactly what it is supposed to.” In imagist poetry, there is often nothing extra added, and it is direct. This poem is used to show that some of the most important things in our lives can often be overlooked or neglected because of the simplicity. 

William Carlos Williams was a friend of Ezra Pound while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Pound was a great influence on Williams' writing. Even though Williams was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, as time went on he started to disagree more and more with what they stood for, especially T.S. Elliots involvement as Williams started to think that Pound and Elliot were becoming too attatched to European culture and traditions. As he started to pull away from them movement, he felt that his slow moving influence was overshadowed by Elliot's "The Waste Land."

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