Red Slippers is all about a pair of red slippers in a store front window. It describes vivid images of red slippers, grey shop windows, and wax dolls. The poem is to showcase how exciting something can be one minute and the next it is taken over by the new thing. The slippers start out in one shop window, but a little later in the poem they are everywhere. This is demonstrating the monotonous life of people. Something starts out new and eventually it is everywhere. The modernism time period was all about being new and exciting and that is exactly what the doll was in the shop window down the street.