Before I read Oliver's section on free verse poems I never really understood them, and typically thought that they were always the lower level poems that could not be put into a structure or rhyming scheme by their author. But as i read on i learned that free verse can offer the author, as well as the reader, a lot more than than your typical poem can.
The free verse poem allows the author to get their point across however they want because they are not held back by any "poetry rules" that authors in the past have had to deal with. I've noticed while reading in class there is often more symbolism and underlying themes in free verse then there is in structured, rhyming poems. The Red Wheelbarrow is the perfect example of this. Even though it is shorter in length than normal poems, and has no rhyme, there are tremendous amounts of underlying themes about how everything can rest on something as simple as a wheelbarrow.
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