A Peasants WeddingLisandra 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

• 3rd person point of view

Picture- Back round

•Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Elder•Created: 1567•Media: Oil paint•Subject: Peasant

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.

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.

Stanza 1: Literary Devices/tone

• Alliteration: bridegroom, bride, before

• Anthropomorphism: Bride is enthroned her hair

• Imagery: Pour the wine bridegroom

• Tone: Calm, Happy, Excited

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.

Stanza 2: Literary Devices

• Imagery: “a head of ripe wheat is on the wall beside her the”

•Tone: Calm

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.

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

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.

Stanza 4: Literary Devices/Tone

• Imagery:“the table the bearded Mayor

is present women in their

starched headgear are”

• Tone: formal

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

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

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.

Stanza 6: Literary Devices/Tone

• Imagery: “dishes are being served”

•Senses: clabber and what not

•Tone: Chaotic

Stanza 7“unhinged barn door by twohelpers one in a redcoat 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.

Stanza 7: Literary Devices/Tone

• Imagery: “unhinged barn door by twohelpers one in a redcoat a spoon in his hatband”

•Tone: poverty

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.

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 or could it be that the bride was forced in an awkward situation?

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.