Wallace Stevens is the author of the well-known imagistic poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”.

A. “Apparition” implies both presence and absence—transience.
B. “Apparition” reflects that the beauty is closely bound up with ugliness in real life.
C. “Apparition” means something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed.
D. “Apparition” means “appearance”, in the sense of something which appears, or shows up.

At a pessimistic level, beauty is transient.
B. At an optimistic level, the poem may imply that even in such a gloomy underground railway station, beauty can still startle people with unusual force.
C. At a pessimistic level the poet reflects the feelings of a heart-broken man who resides in a place far away from his hometown.

A. The wheelbarrow stands still without life, and it is static, while chickens are living things, running for shelter from rain, so they are dynamic.
B. Red is the color of anger, probably suggesting the farmer’s hatred for the inhuman life, and white implies death, probably suggesting there is no hope.
C. With the animate juxtaposed with the inanimate, and the white color in contrast with the red, here we have in our minds’ eye meaningful textures and clear, delightful colors.
D. Both of them are small, insignificant but beautiful things which enlighten us that beauty lies in the ordinary life, so the return to an ordinary and a daily life is the return to normality and to a restoration of life.