Something seen in Stein

There is a quality of simplicity here that at first insulted my intellect. I know that I am not getting it when I read Stein. Patriarchal poetry was challenging beause of its simplicity, though I liked the sonnet in it. Malanchta in my opinion could have been a great work of prose if not for the redundency of the repitition. Now I am reading tender buttons. There is beauty in the language here, alliteration and images captured and weaved together to make a whole. I see a hole, though. At least I did until we had our in class writing activity about tender buttons. There it was. The simplicity had meaning. Language has so many facets that it is difficult to make it simple. This is seen in the image of a band- hair band, music band..... A round. There was some wonderful reflections and reactions to language by the class and Steinian style that seem to bring it together for me. I enjoyed the work we did and am able to grasp something further from the exercise. Our class is very creative.