Talk:The Red Wheelbarrow

message: ...I recall reading somewhere years ago that the real inspiration and background to this piece is that Dr. Williams was attending to a patient at the house where he observed the red wheelbarrow, white chickens, etc.  The patient was a gravely ill young child, and having this knowledge gives the poem more depth than its surface meaning alone provides--although the poem is enjoyable with or without the knowledge of what prompted it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jnpoet (talk • contribs).
I remember my teacher talking about the colors of the poem, red for the wheelbarrow, white for the chickens and blue for the water (although water has no color, we associate it with blue), these are the colors of the american flag. Also there is a very inspiring essay right after this poem that throws out meaning side by side to this poem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.203.67.113 (talk • contribs).
Is that reference to a horse's BRC supposed to be there or is that someone's idea of a joke?  (If serious, it needs an apostrophe.)  Myself, I always thought this poem was in the form of a medieval-style kenning riddle, the answer being "tongue in mouth surrounded by teeth". Asat 08:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't even noticed that!  Wow.  Now THAT'S art.  -BlueNight 14:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background to this poem... 

message: Simply reading the poem, I don't agree with the stress analysis presented on this page.  I realize it comes from a published paper, but is there some alternative analysis out there?  At least with the first line, I just can't imagine that it was meant to be read that way.  72.129.0.10 (talk) 09:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I was the one who put the stress analysis from the paper in the article. I'll see if I can find an alternative opinion, but since the current analysis is from a reliable source, I'm going to leave it in the article for now.--Danaman5 (talk) 07:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stress 

message: Removed the original research tag. Logic follows:
*  In general the article appears well referenced 
*  The one section which appears to be potentially original requests a citation 
*  WP:Cite does not suggest multiple tags for a single annotated sin.
Please document your concerns here if you believe the original research tag should be restored.
Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 02:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember trying to find a citation for that one paragraph when I was adding to this article originally. I agree with your removal of the citation needed tag, and I'll see what other improvements I can make.--Danaman5 (talk) 07:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Got a reference for the spot that needed it.--Danaman5 (talk) 07:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Research Tag

message: What does "confront the text" mean, anyway? There was an article online -- I can't find it now -- in which the author claimed that the "sick child" backstory was made up by Williams devotees and that Williams himself had just been experimenting with images, or even having us on with the "so much depends" business. Thousands of English students wrack their brains over this poem, all to no avail if you don't know the backstory: was it supposed to be known only to the literary elite, or was he engaging in an early form of conceptualism? If we accept the idea that writing cannot be considered good literature if it is easy to understand, well there go Homer and Mark Twain, among many others. --Bluejay Young (talk) 22:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Was there really a sick child?

message: Since the the poem was first published in 1923 and the poet died in 1963, in case anyone has any questions about the copyright status, I have added the analysis and rationale below. I am unsure if the poem is in the public domain, so providing a rationale for fair use for the poem's text within the article is necessary, and I assert herewith why I believe that its use is permissible under the fair use doctrine and the policies and criteria discussed at Wikipedia:Non-free content.--ColonelHenry (talk) 16:33, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of the poem text viz. fair use, copyright, and WP:NFC (DO NOT ARCHIVE)