If I told him by Gertrude Stein

If I told him by Gertrude Stein

 

This poem left quite an impression on the class during the poem reading session. Up to now, I don’t really know what this poem is about. I first thought if this as a very likely rap song or a club remix of sorts. It’s so amusing that of all the poems, this was one of the longest. The poem is written as “A completed portrait of Picasso” apparently. It’s a nice way of seeing it; a painting in words. I see Picasso’s paintings having little to none structure much like the poem. So maybe the poem doesn’t really have to make sense; or is made to not have any sense. I don’t think “Shutters shut and shutters and so shutters / shut and shutters and so and so shutters”  are meant to have any sense in them. Sense doesn’t necessarily equate to meaning. I do believe that there is something in this poem that means more than what is written.