"If I told him" A complete portrait of Picasso by:Gertrude Stein

The poem “If I told him” A complete portrait of Picasso by: Gertrude Stein was very confusing to read because she repeated a lot of words over and over again. In class when the teachers made each of us read like 2 sentences of the poem out loud I thought that we weren’t reading it as Gertrude would want people to read her poem because we were way out of beat, some people would read the poem fast and then some people would read it slow. When we were reading the poem I thought to myself that it didn’t make sense how that poem would be a portrait of Picasso because to me it had nothing to do with him, she never mentioned Picasso in the poem she was talking about other people and things like Napoleon and kings. But then when I heard Stein saying her poem it made sense to me why she made the poem like that. She wrote the poem like that because that’s how Picasso is, that was her way of describing how he is. The way Stein performed her poem was very different because poems are usually recited and when she recited her poem there was music in the back, I never heard anyone recite their poem like that. Her poem was very unique.