ENGL 1080- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1080
• Professor: Sandra Singer

Document Summary

Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Author: pediatrician from northeast in early 20th century. Marxists may look at the wheelbarrow as a symbol of technology. Post-colonial lens may reveal white as normative, red as indigenous, exploitation, etc. The poem is very simple yet very structured. 4 stanzas, 4 words each (3 words, 1 word). Generally one syllable words on the first line but two on the second - emphasis is created through disrupting the pattern. We are missing a dependent clause it starts with how it is so important, not why. The wheelbarrow becomes a metaphor for that need for order. A difference between everyday language and literary language; they are related, but literary language has a specific purpose to see effect. The period gives clarity of definition and purpose. Consider the use of ordinary experience as it implies extraordinary significance.