The Red Wheelbarrow

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Red Wheelbarrow 
                                                                                                                                                                                      by William Carlos Williams

                                                                                                                                                                                                      so much depends
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             upon

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 a red wheel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          barrow

                                                                                                                                                                                                          glazed with rain
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            water

                                                                                                                                                                                                         beside the white
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      chickens

So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow. The weather is something that we must take into consideration, because said wheelbarrow could be covered by rain, but it could also be constantly exposed to the sun. So much would then depend on the orangey wheelbarrow and its decay.
The wheelbarrow in the poem will be forever red and covered by rain, but even the heaviest rain stops. The drops that adorn the wheelbarrow will eventually slide and disappear. We would then have to think about where said wheelbarrow is located, in what geopolitical situation, what religion does it profess, what’s it’s sexual preference. 1 in 10 red wheelbarrows have been victims of sexual violence. This largely depends on the wheelbarrow’s owners. There are those who take care of them, when they finish using them they keep them in a safe place, but this is not always the case.
The owners of the wheelbarrows are also the ones who assign a value to them. A red wheelbarrow with just any owner is not worth the same as the red wheelbarrow that belongs to the largest collector of red wheelbarrows in Wyoming, or the red wheelbarrow that Elvis played with in his childhood.
A long time ago a brief math test circulated on the internet. After solving some problems, the test asked you to think of a color and a tool. 98% of the people thought of a red hammer.
So much depends on that red hammer. Like the one with which my father would build a house for my dog, if my father had participated in my childhood, if he had given me a dog.
The use to which the imagined hammer was put also matters. A red hammer that was used to build a bookcase is not the same as the red hammer that is in custody for having been used as a murder weapon on August 11, 2014.
In the same way, the use that is given to said wheelbarrow is of the utmost importance. It is possible that it was used to transport chickens after cutting their heads off and making them into broth. Perhaps it is the blood of these chickens that gives the wheelbarrow on which so much depends its red color. Perhaps the chickens while observing the wheelbarrow used to say goodbye to each other by flapping their wings for one last time.