http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ
This is a video from youtube shows us how Gertrude Stein reads her poem “If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso.” Oh wow. I don’t know what to say. I don’t understand it a lot. It seems to me she is really good with words, that she can play with the same words repetitively to express her ideas.
Someone posted his comment under the video:”At a time where life had become confusing and disjointed: wars and loss, and when it had become repetitive and unfulfilling: Fordism and assembly lines… At this time did Gertrude Stein write in a fashion that is confusing, disjointed, repetitive and unfulfilling. Every time you expect her to finish a sentence or a thought, it becomes repeated and more difficult to accept with the rest of that already spoken. ” That’s how I feel when i was reading the poem. There’s always something missing from the senctence that would completed the thought. The words are put together but the meanings are disconnected.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Stein-Gertrude_If-I-Told-Him_1923.html
This is some information on how this poem was written. Now i seem to understand the connection between Stein, Nepoleon and Picasso and the word “resemblance.” She was trying to compare Picasso’s creativity to Nepaleon’s genius.
