automatically to find the background, because a red wheelbarrow used to be sold expensively. It used to be possessed by a store, company, or rich man
only.
Everybody knows, a red wheelbarrow works to move some kinds of material like a pile of sand, stone, or wood from one place to another one.
Farmers use it, labors use it, and carpenters use it as well as builders. It was a meaningful thing by then. So it’s not too much to say “so much depends
upon a red wheelbarrow”.
c. Seventh and Eighth Line
Beside the white Chickens
At the seventh “beside the white” and eighth “chickens” line, the red wheelbarrow is contrasted with white chickens beside it. In short, by putting
white chickens beside the red wheelbarrow, the readers’ eyes can be caught easily.
The chickens more than one inform the readers that the wheelbarrow was near to a farm or a ranch house. In a ranch house, a wheelbarrow used
to be a tool for moving wood or straw from one place to another.
The most important, the existence of chickens beside the wet red wheelbarrow is that the reader can imagine the background of the
wheelbarrow. The first, the background must be spring, why? Because chickens are too strange to describe the situation of winter or fall. In
summer, perhaps, the chickens prowl outside the house, but rain—as mentioned before—fall rarely. The second, as there are many white
chickens, there must be a ranch house, and it makes clear why there is a wheelbarrow. As it is known, a ranch house needs wheelbarrow to move
straws for feeding the chickens.
Table 2 Visual Imagery in Red Wheelbarrow
No. Corpus
Line Reason
1. A red wheelbarrow
3 and 4 Color has a relationship with
eyes. Readers can see red things with their eyes, but
cannot hear them with their ears.
2. Glazed with rain water 5 and 6
Something glazed with something can only be enjoyed
by seeing it. It cannot be heard.
3. Beside the white
chicken 7 and 8
Chicken is a picture, and it should be seen, not heard. And
white is a color. It only can be seen with eyes, not heard by
ears.
3. Contribution to Theme
a. Fifth and sixth lines The fifth and the sixth lines, “glazed with rain water”, indicate that the
background of the poetry was a spring. To western people, spring is time
