One thing to remember about "The Red Wheelbarrow [sic]" is that it was part of a numbered sequence called "Spring and All." Removing it from its context as part of a longer work has never made much sense to me. Section IV of The Waste Land is only 8 lines long and would be just baffling standing by itself. Maybe some of the Cantos (like the usura canto) work as individual poems, but they still belong to a larger context. An older poet told me, when I was young, that I should try writing a sequence. "Sequence of what?" I asked.
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