response to poem

MY RESPONSES

1. My initial response to this poem is that someone is always working with a wheel barrow while working on a farm

2. I reacted in such way based upon an intellectual response. Once i read the last line of the poem "beside the white chickens", the landscape of a farm just popped into my head.

3. This text is obviously a peom, a very free - verse poem. It really is just a realistic and poetic statement.

4. The author of this peom just wants to portray to the reader that wheel barrows (of any color) are essential tools when it comes to laborous work.

5. I believe the thesis of this poem to be, doing ardous work would not be sufficient without a wheel barrow being able to carry tremendous loads of items.

6. It is obviously the genre of free - verse poetry. Like i have proclaimed earlier, it is a simple sentence with so much meaning.

7. I have seen my dad use a wheel barrow time and time again when he's constantly working in the back yard: hauling dirt, bricks, wood chips, etc,etc. Basically a wheelbarrow is an everyday life object that a lot of people use. Commercials are always finding ways to proclaim how "terrible" wheel barrows are for the back and whatnot.

FRIEND'S RESPONSE

1) My inital response is that the poem is structured in an interesting structure and that there is probably a deeper meaning.

2)Intellectual (I'm a little confused on this one, forgive me)

3) It is organized in two lines

4)The author wants the audience to see that the wheelbarrow represents something more.

5)I would say that the thesis is something about how the wheelbarrow is a necessity for the people using it.

6)I think that it defies genre labeling.

7)I've seen this object before in life.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESPONSES

In general, i had a much deeper interpretation towards this peom then my friend did. I particularly found her response to question number six was very interesting, but i wish she would have explained more. Instead of just creating the analyses that it has an interesting structure and whatnot, i believe my analyses in depth.....i dunno.