7.+Renaissance

=Comparing Renaissance art and Modern poetry =
 * == Step 1 : Read ALL the directions carefully!==
 * == Step 2 : In pairs, you should look at the paintings by Pieter Bruegel and the poetry by William Carlos Williams that corresponds to each painting. Write a brief summary of why you think Williams tried to create "word pictures" of these paintings (5-10 sentences).==
 * == Step 3 : Then, pick the poem/painting pair that you think is the most successful, and write why (3-5 sentences).==
 * == Step 4 : THEN I would like you to write your __OWN__ poem based on one of the artworks below. Try to be original! At least 10-15 lines! ==
 * == Step 4 : THEN I would like you to write your __OWN__ poem based on one of the artworks below. Try to be original! At least 10-15 lines! ==

William Carlos Williams' Peasant Wedding  Pour the wide bridegroom where before you the bride is enthroned her hair
 * Bruegel's //[|Peasant Wedding]//**

loose at her temples a head of ripe wheat is on the wall beside her the

guests seated at long tables the bagpipers are ready there is a hound under

the table the bearded Mayor is present women in their starched headgear are

gabbing all but the bride hands folded in her lap is awkwardly silent simple

dishes are being served clabber and what not from a trestle made of an

unhinged barn door by two helpers one in a red coat a spoon in his hatband




 The living quality of the man's mind stands out

and its covert assertions for art, art, art! painting

that the Renaissance tried to absorb but

it remained a wheat field over which the wind played

men with scythes tumbling the wheat in rows

the gleaners already busy it was his own-- magpies

the patient horses no one could take that from him



//**[|The Parable of the Blind]**//
This horrible but suburb painting the parable of the blind without a red

in the composition shows a group of beggars leading each other diagonally downward  across the canvas from one side to stumble finally into a bog

where the picture and the composition ends black of which no seeing man

is represented unshaven features of the des- titute with their few

pitiful possessions in a basin to wash in a peasant cottage is seen and a church spire

the faces are raised as toward the light there is no detail extraneous

to the composition one follows the other stick in hand triumphant to disaster



//[|The Hunters in the Snow]//
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return

from the hunt is toward evening from the left sturdy hunters lead in

their pack the inn-sign hanging from a broken hinge is a stag a crucifix

between his antlers the cold inn yard is deserted but for a huge bonfire

that flares wind-driven tended by women who cluster about it to the right beyond

the hill is a pattern of skaters Brueghel the painter concerned with it all has chosen

a winter-struck bush for his foreground to complete the picture...

 =Now, pick a picture from the set below, and with a partner, write your own poem in the style of Williams. You should each write one line, then trade off, back and forth (__AT LEAST 8-12 LINES__). Or you can each write a half and put it together. Please turn that in when you are finished. =  =When you are done with that, you should write a poem ON YOUR OWN based on one of the pictures below (__AT LEAST 10-15 LINES__). Turn that in when you have finished. **If you do not finish, it is homework!** =