This video explains “The Red Wheelbarrow” in terms of artistic theories.

This video discusses themes in The Red Wheelbarrow and other Williams poems: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, The Young Housewife, and This is Just to Say.

Here’s a good image of the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, upon which Williams bases his poem.  The second image has an arrow inserted to show you where Icarus fell, in case you’re having difficulty finding him in the painting.

And, just in case you’re interested, here’s a poem by W.H. Auden, written in 1938, that references the same Brueghel painting, “Musee des Beaux Arts.”

Musee des Beaux Art