English, 13.03.2020 21:54, vivian2020
Nalyze and explain how the American Gothic painting and poem portray rural American values. Use evidence from the text to support your answer. Artist Grant Wood was inspired to draw his now-famous âAmerican Gothicâ painting after a visit to a small Iowa town. Using his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, he sought to create a piece that would be a positive statement about rural American values, traditions, and culture. While Woodâs painting focuses first on the subjects and then the setting, John Stone used this painting to do the opposite, first choosing to highlight what was âoutside of the canvasâs frameâ and then moving to the portrayed subjects.
American Gothic
Poem by John Stone
Just outside the frame
there has to be a dog
chickens, cows and hay
and a smokehouse
where a ham in hickory
is also being preserved
Here for all time
the borders of the Gothic window
anticipate the ribs
of the house
the tines of the pitchfork
repeat the triumph
of his overalls
and front and center
the long faces, the sober lips
above the upright spines
of this couple
arrested in the name of art
These two
by now
the sun this high
ought to be
in mortal time
about their businesses
Instead they linger here
within the patient fabric
of the lives they wove
he asking the artist silently
how much longer
and worrying about the crops
she no less concerned about the crops
but more to the point just now
whether she remembered
to turn off the stove.
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