Rizzo explains that Williams later expounded upon his trade as both a doctor and a poet, writing in later works that he'd been impressed by an elderly black man named Marshall. This farming image, of a common farming tool waiting to be used in the context of the African-American Marshall, speaks of the stark simplicity of farm life in rural 1920s America (Rizzo, 2005, p
¶ … Red Wheelbarrow' William Carlos Williams That William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" is an Imagism benchmark poem in the annals American poetry is evidenced by its constant pedagogical repetition in scholarly circles, almost to the point of becoming trite (Easterbrook, 1994)
40). These two opening lines thrust upon its reader the author's admission that there is more to do here than convey a simple image; the author would likewise prefer to convey something significant by illustrating plain objects that literarily exude great import (Morgan, 1947, p