Wednesday, April 25, 2012

LIB -Gertrude Stein poem


       The poem written by Gertrude Stein for Picasso was both objective and subjective. It was objective because it was a poem and the words used were not unique.  What I mean by the words were not unique is the words are in the dictionary they were not unusual and made up.  However, the words as well as the style of the poem made it subjective.
       In an objective sense, Ms. Stein just wanted to use a poem because that is her profession.  A poem was best for her because that is how she expresses herself. Picasso describes her in a painting because that is the way he express himself and she wrote a poem because that is the way she expresses herself. In general poems and painting are hobbies, but Picasso and Gertrude Stein express themselves with a different style.
        In a subjective sense ---- wrote the poem in a very unique way. For one the stanzas were very unusual because it did not follow a specific pattern. The rhythm was consistent, but the words did not rhyme. The words were repetitive, but not in different stanzas, they were collided together and repeated. The most subjective part about the poem was the music that came with it. Usually a poem makes it’s own beat based off of it’s own rhythm, but not this poem. To me it seemed as if she was writing to the beat. 

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