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DDPR001 Tender Buttons - Objects

Tender buttons - Objects
Gertude Stein



A TABLE.

A table means does it not my dear it means a whole steadiness.
It is likely that a change.
A table means more than a glass even a looking glass is tall.
A table means neccessary places and a revision a revision of a little thing it means it does mean that there has been a stand, a stand where it shake.



What I thought by reading the poem

When I read the poem, I thought there's an oscillation in this poem between steadiness and instability. From the first sentence, it represents a principal image or the conventional wisdom of the object table which is related to steadiness. This is a fixed concept that the people have the stable and solid image to the table. However, in the second sentence, by using the word change, it represents that it is not immutable rephrases as changeable. What I thought in the second sentence is that there is some way to overturning the fixed concept of the people. From an architectural point, shadows or materials could be the elements which might change the principal image of the table. As time goes by, the shadow of the feet of the table changes, and the shadow itself is given the concept of form. Likewise, as time passes, the material used for the table changes with time due to external factors such as temperature. It also changes with external factors called people. For example, a cradle is a stable object, but it is wobbly once the baby uses it. The third sentence is back to the steady table, but then there is another description about the glasses. From an architectural point, it shows the elements of the transparency. It emphasizes stability with the word glass. However, glass also has one aspect of transparency. By adding water elements above and below or to the left and right of the glass, it can create an instability situation because of the transparency that can visualize the water ripples, even the glass material has the steadiness site. The last sentence suggests the steadiness of the table by indicating that it gives necessary places for things to be done.
DDPR001 Tender Buttons - Objects
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