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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement...
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The Red Wheelbarrow

  
by William Carlos Williams 

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.






Copyright © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher.
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