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Originally Posted by Gregory Palmerino
The word “barrow” is interesting for anyone living a rural existence because it is a burial mound. Think of any rural cemetery. By separating the words “wheel” and “barrow,” WCW gets to have his life in death all in two little lines of poetry:
a red wheel
barrow
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That's a snappy and on-point analysis: in all my years of knowing this poem--and even talking about at university, in a class--we'd never looked at it like that. I love it.