As I read though Gertrude Stein’s poem to Picasso, “If I Told Him,” I was at first confused at her writing style. I thought to myself whether or not she had some sort of writing style that I had not seen before. I then realized that her style is very strange indeed. She seems to use contradictory statements when writing. As she says something, recoils it and then restates it. This is a very interesting method of writing, possibly written this way to display that she is unsure about something. When hearing the poem, I had not seen this pattern in her writing, however reading it multiple times allowed me to see the flow in which she writes. Although very unorthodox, it is a very strong method of writing as it makes you think about what she means in her poem. I still do not have a complete understanding as to what the poem means, however her style of writing has become more clear.