This is so because the form of the poem is also its meaning." This viewpoint is also argued by Henry M. Sayre who compared the poem to the readymade artwork of Marcel Duchamp. Peter Baker analyzed the poem in terms of theme, writing that "Williams is saying that perception is necessary to life and that the poem itself can lead to a fuller understanding of one's experience." Kenneth Lincoln saw humor in the poem, writing "perhaps it adds up to no more than a small comic lesson in the necessity of things in themselves." References External links Critical Essays on "The Red Wheelbarrow" and other poems by Williams Haj Ross on the linguistics of the poem American poems 1923 poems Poetry by William Carlos Williams Imagism Modernist poems