I have decided to spotlight the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow “ by William Carlos Williams. This poem is perhaps the most famous example of imagist poetry. Imagist poetry is centred on one exclusive image, an image so deeply focused that it becomes the poem itself. Imagists insisted that a poem should get its power, not from the poet’s clever style, not the symbolism of its content, but from the emotions evoked by an image (An idea that can be traced back to the Japanese Haiku of the 16 th century). Williams was an imagist whose aesthetic principles were largely focused on everyday life and the common man. It was an aesthetic that went against the grain of the critically acclaimed poets of the day such as the classicist, academic, and formal poetry exemplified by the likes of T. S. Eliot. “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem composed of a single sentence broken up at various intervals. The poem’s opening lines set the tone for the entire poem, and its form and meaning are unite