2. Red wheelbarrow by William Carlos William
1923
So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
3. Red wheelbarrow
The red wheelbarrow is a very minimal poem with lots of
meaning. Being only 4 stanzas long and only 4 words in each
makes for a very short poem.
4. 1920’s
The beginning of new prosperity in the Untied States. This poem Wheelbarrow,
short and to the point about having a new wheel barrel and chickens. A
prosperous country.
5. Languages by Carl Sandburg 1916
There are no handles upon a language
Whereby men take hold of it
And mark it with signs for its remembrance.
It is a river, this language,
Once in a thousand years
Breaking a new course
Changing its way to the ocean.
It is mountain effluvia
Moving to valleys
And from nation to nation
Crossing borders and mixing.
Languages die like rivers.
Words wrapped round your tongue today
And broken to shape of thought
Between your teeth and lips speaking
Now and today
Shall be faded hieroglyphics
Ten thousand years from now.
Sing—and singing—remember
Your song dies and changes
And is not here to-morrow
Any more than the wind
Blowing ten thousand years ago.
6. Languages
Languages is a poem about how our languages will change
over time, with new cultures and languages mixing
together. Eventually our language will be lost and a new
one will become dominant. This is true as there are dead
languages, like Latin, that very few people, if not none,
converse in this language in modern time. But it still lives
on in other languages that were formed based on Latin,
like French and Spanish.
7. 1916
Languages could also be about how the world cannot communicate and because
of this, lack of communication during a war, WWI.
