![]() ![]() There are too many ways to parse “loving repeating.” I know just enough to be dangerous and just enough to know when to ask for help. ![]() So, I knew Stein was doing something with the way the word “repeating” took on different meanings in the sentence and functioned as different parts of speech. “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Or as the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry explains, “Just as someone in love says over and again the beloved’s name until the name itself becomes the object of attention and….This act of impassioned naming attempts to get beyond conventional meaning.” ![]() How does the word work if it is next to this word? What color are the lilies at 5 a.m.? What about 5 p.m.? Each new attempt plays with how a subject’s environment or surroundings affect how the viewer or reader perceives it. Each part is as important as the whole.” Her prose-poetry is lFike Monet’s Water Lilies in that every repeated word or phrase is an experiment. Stein says in “A Transatlantic Interview,” “in composition one thing was as important as another thing. I reread the passage above multiple times, but still got lost in the nuances of the phrase “loving repeating.” One thing to know when deciphering Stein is she experimented with how individual words created tension within the poem. Loving repeating then in some is their natural way of complete being. Loving repeating in some is a going on always in them of earthly being, in some it is the way to completed understanding. More and more in living as growing young men and women and grown men and women and men and women in their middle living, more and more there comes to be in them differences in loving repeating in different kinds of men and women, there comes to be in some more and in some less loving repeating. In some children there is more feeling and in repeating eating and playing, in some in story-telling and their feeling. In some it is repeating that gives to them always a solid feeling of being. Here’s an example:Īs I was saying loving repeating being is in a way earthly being. Perhaps reading Gertrude Stein or understanding Gertrude Stein. There are stranger problems than trying to diagram sentences from Gertrude Stein. ![]() “There should be an app for this.” And there should be. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |