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A Peasants Wedding

A Peasants Wedding. Lisandra Cervantes Marissa Carrasco. Starting Activity:. Draw a picture of what a wedding looks like today and make sure to add the bride and groom. Starting Activity. Structure. 3 lines per stanza 3 rd person point of view. Picture- Back round.

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A Peasants Wedding

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  1. A Peasants Wedding Lisandra Cervantes Marissa Carrasco

  2. Starting Activity: Draw a picture of what a wedding looks like today and make sure to add the bride and groom.

  3. Starting Activity

  4. Structure • 3 lines per stanza • 3rd person point of view

  5. Picture- Back round • Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Elder • Created: 1567 • Media: Oil paint • Subject: Peasant

  6. Thesis • William Carlos Williams decided to portray how the painting expresses the meaning of an actual peasants wedding, and to show the emotion that is being showed in the settings.

  7. Stanza 1 “Pour the wine bridegroom where before you the Bride is enthroned her hair” • Interpretation: The husband is the guy that is serving the wine while the bride is sitting being treated like she's a queen. • Vocabulary: • Enthroned-install (a monarch) on a throne, during a ceremony to mark the beginning of their rule.

  8. Stanza 1: Literary Devices/tone • Alliteration: bridegroom, bride, before • Anthropomorphism: Bride is enthroned her hair • Imagery: Pour the wine bridegroom • Tone: Calm, Happy, Excited

  9. Stanza 2 “Loose at her temples a head of ripe wheat is on the wall beside her the” • Interpretation: This stanza is talking about where the bride is in the picture, it explains that she is next to a ripe wheat.

  10. Stanza 2: Literary Devices • Imagery: “a head of ripe wheat is on the wall beside her the” • Tone: Calm

  11. Stanza 3 “guests seated at long tables the bagpipers are ready there is a hound under” • Interpretation: This stanza explains where the people are all seated and it talks about a hound being under the table, this shows that it is a poor or peasants wedding because there is a random dog under the table.

  12. Stanza 3: Literary Devices/Tone • Imagery: “guests seated at long tables the bagpipers are ready there is a hound under” • Rhyme: “there is a hound under” • Tone: crazy, confusing, chaotic

  13. Stanza 4 “the table the bearded Mayor is present women in their starched headgear are” • Interpretation: This stanza talks about the mayor being their which could mean this is an arranged marriage because on of the people getting married could be from a higher class. • Vocabulary: Starched headgear or toque: a woman's small hat, typically having a narrow, closely turned-up brim.

  14. Stanza 4: Literary Devices/Tone • Imagery:“the table the bearded Mayor is present women in their starched headgear are” • Tone: formal

  15. Stanza 5 “gabbing all but the bride hands folded in her lap is awkwardly silent simple” • Interpretation: All the women are having fun except the bride she is just sitting quietly and awkwardly. • Vocabulary: Gabbing: talk, typically at length, about trivial matters

  16. Stanza 5: Literary Devices/Tone • Imagery: gabbing all but the bride hands folded in her lap is awkwardly silent simple • Alliteration: lap is awkwardly silent simple • Tone: Awkward

  17. Stanza 6 “dishes are being served clabber and what not from a trestle made of an” • Interpretation: This shows the chaos of the wedding and how every one is being rushed. • Vocabulary: Trestle: a framework consisting of a horizontal beam supported by two pairs of sloping legs, used in pairs to support a flat surface such as a tabletop.

  18. Stanza 6: Literary Devices/Tone • Imagery: “dishes are being served” • Senses: clabber and what not • Tone: Chaotic

  19. Stanza 7 “unhinged barn door by two
helpers one in a red
coat a spoon in his hatband” • Interpretaion:In this stanza it emphizes the poverty of the wedding, it talks about two men carrying a door as a serving table. • Vocabulary Hatband: a decorative ribbon encircling a hat, held in position above the brim.

  20. Stanza 7: Literary Devices/Tone • Imagery: “unhinged barn door by two
helpers one in a red
coat a spoon in his hatband” • Tone: poverty

  21. Mood/tone of overall poem and interpretation: • Mood: Calm, Crazy, Chaotic, Awkward • Overall Interpretation: This poem by William Carlos William shows the poverty in this wedding, but at the same time it shows that one of the family's could be from a higher class because it shows that the mayor is at the wedding. By the bride being quite and still it shows that maybe she was forced into the marriage and she is unhappy.

  22. End activity: Class disscusion Why do you think that the bride and groom are so far from eachother? Do you think it is a sign of an arranged marriage orcould it be that the bride wasforced in anawkwardsituation?

  23. Conclusion • William Carlos Williams shows poverty by showing the different types of actions happening in the poem for example the door being used as a table and also the fact that this could be an arranged marriage because he uses the tone of the poem to portray the brides unhappiness.

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