To many people a red wheelbarrow may just be an object for simple uses, but to William Carlos Williams it is much more than just a simple portrayed object. In Williams poems, he expresses objects to have deeper meaning than you may think. They often relate to larger ideas of what it means to be human, as stated above the wheelbarrow is more than an object, it is the subject of this poem for the fact that William emphasizes on the red wheelbarrow and how it stands out through rain and white chickens. He has essentially painted an image and many possible settings for the reader to wonder about. Another author who does this is Elizabeth Bishop, who has the same attitude of writing as Williams Carlos Williams because of the very detailed scenes…show more content… As simple as it is she still mentions it because it is on display in a perfect instance where the loon in all its beauty is captured since it is stuffed and to be preserved. This correlates with her younger cousin in the coffin, to be forever preserved in a sense. Bishop also relates the coffin to a little frosted cake, this is because the speaker of the poem is a child and has little to compare the coffin to, the speaker of the poem goes on to say the young boy was like a doll who has not been painted yet. Also the poem explains that the it was as if Jack Frost had started to paint him, red strokes in his hair as if Jack Frost was turning it into the fall again, but he had left the rest of the boy forever white. In Elizabeth Bishops Poem One Art the simple things are still not as noticeable, she puts tiny, insignificant losses right up next to huge ones in her poem. Bishops simple things are usually more complicated, but in the poems, she down plays how complicated they are to make them seem simple, just like the idea of losing. Losing keys, places, names, her mothers watch and even a
