The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the...
-
Upload
belinda-patterson -
Category
Documents
-
view
219 -
download
0
Transcript of The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the...
![Page 1: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The parable of the The parable of the blind blind
![Page 2: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
![Page 3: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
The Parable of the Blind
Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why do you think Williams’ omitted this? (class discussion)
![Page 4: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
THE PARABLE OF THE BLIND
THESIS: Williams’ use of a biblical allegory and negative imagery/ diction to show how the painting, The Blind Leading the Blind, depicts ignorant people
leading more ignorant people into a path they think is the path to God.
![Page 5: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Senses: Meaning and Language
8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”…13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 15: 8-9, 13
![Page 6: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Interpretation
•Modern- Ignorant person following another = Disaster
•Religious-False teachings lead to blindness
![Page 7: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Sense: Meaning & LanguageArchetype: Beggars
-Poor
-Deceiving
Allegory: Basin
-Religious symbol for purity
Irony
“ This horrible but superb painting”
Connotation“Diagonally Downward”-Misguided
Tone: Descriptive Mood: Sad
![Page 8: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Senses: Meaning and Language
Understanding the parable = Word of God
Those who don’t = ignorant
The Purpose of Parables
Mark 4:10-12 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable. 11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, 12 so that ‘Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.’”
![Page 9: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Sense: Meaning & LanguageMotif : Religion
-Basin
-Church spire
-Light
Speaker
-Admiring
Theme
- Deception
POV
3RD Person
Allusion
“Parable of the blind”
Matthew 15: 1-16
![Page 10: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Senses: Imagery & Symbols
Basin:
Represents place where water is held
Water is used by church to cleanse sin
Instead leading into dirty bog
Basin:
Represents place where water is held
Water is used by church to cleanse sin
Instead leading into dirty bog
Light
God
Blind:
Not literally
Blind in the heart
Intentions lead to believe they are going in the path towards God
Color
“without a red”
Color-blind
![Page 11: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Structure: Form, Organization , Pattern
Enjambment
- All
Pattern-3 lines
8 Stanzas
Repetition-Composition 2x
Syntax
- No period
![Page 12: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Style: Poetry Techniques
Juxtaposition – used to emphasize the main meaning of the poem through contradictions
Ex. Stanza 1
This horrible but superb paintingthe parable of the blindwithout a redEx. Stanza 8
to the composition onefollows the others stick inhand triumphant to disaster
Metaphor – to make a reference to God
Ex. the faces are raisedas toward the lightthere is no detail extraneous
![Page 13: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Other Poetry Techniques
• Oxymoron:
•This horrible but superb paintingthe parable of the blindwithout a red
• to the composition onefollows the others stick inhand triumphant to disaster
![Page 14: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Sound: Musicality & Auditory Techniques
Alliteration – used in 3 stanzas to emphasize the main points of the poemEx. Stanza 1
This horrible but superb paintingthe parable of the blindwithout a red
Ex. Stanza 2 in the composition shows a groupof beggars leadingeach other diagonally downward
Ex. Stanza 6
pitiful possessions a basinto wash in a peasantcottage is seen and a church spire
• No repetition of vowels & No repetition of vowels & consonants consonants
• Free Verse Free Verse (no meter, (no meter, some type of rhythm but some type of rhythm but no specific rhythm)no specific rhythm)
![Page 15: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Sound Continued
This horrible but superb paintingthe parable of the blindwithout a red
in the composition shows a groupof beggars leadingeach other diagonally downward
across the canvasfrom one sideto stumble finally into a bog
where the pictureand the composition ends backof which no seeing man
is represented the unshavenfeatures of the des-titute with their few
pitiful possessions a basinto wash in a peasantcottage is seen and a church spire
the faces are raisedas toward the lightthere is no detail extraneous
to the composition onefollows the others stick inhand triumphant to disaster
Enjambment Enjambment – used to connect – used to connect ideas freely to the next stanzaideas freely to the next stanza
![Page 16: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Connection to Other Works by Williams Main focus on the poor and all based on a paintings by Brueghel
Landscape With the Fall of Icarus Peasant Wedding
![Page 17: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Closing Activity.
What are some events in history or in your life in which you think the idea of The Blind Leading the Blind relates to?
![Page 18: The parable of the blind. The Parable of the Blind Opening Activity: What details do you see in the painting that were not mentioned in the poem? Why.](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032702/56649cf45503460f949c3089/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
CONCLUSION
Williams’ use of a biblical allegory and negative imagery/ diction to show how the painting, The Blind Leading the Blind, depicts ignorant people leading more ignorant people into a path they think is the path to God.