Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly.
These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
Incy is short of incubus.
A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble,
the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and
render clean, render clean must.
Drink pups.
Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink
has pins. It shows a nail.
What is a nail. A nail is unison.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
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From guest Griffin (contact)
Wasn't this the same woman who said sometimes a rose is just a rose? This poem is exactly what it looks like and nothing else. She is not going for symbolism; look at her language. 'which is,' 'this means,' 'this is,' 'these are,' and more...she is telling you exactly what everything is and does. The poem is the very antithesis of metaphor. What room does that leave for intellectual analysis? -
Susie and slippage
From guest Elizabeth (contact)
Why on Earth would anyone want to destroy this poem by analyzing it? I love it for the sounds and the slippages between sound and meaning... -
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From guest rose (contact)
this poem is a little confusing you really have to go deep to understand it...well for me anyways -
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From guest Jessica (contact)
If you read the poem outloud, you'll notice some things. "sweet tea" for instance, sound much like "sweetie"? Or how about "tray sure"..."slips hers" and so on. Interesting... -
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From guest Ryan (contact)
When you read this poem you have to take a formalist approach to this poem to understand it. The first 2 lines are high pitch sounds "sweet" This is repeated throughout to indicate a sign of urgency. Then the last word is "tea". What is tea? Tea is tradition. Then skip the middle portion of the poem and read where she starts talking about pots. A "pot" is symbolic for females. Then she talks about old vats. Old vats are old customs or traditions. In the same line she talks about trees that shade her. The trees represent men and how they protect her. Then the line says that when shoved from under the shade she is vulnerable (no protection). Back in the old days women were not allowed to have jobs so they would depend on the men to survive and when pushed from under the shade her social norms were shaken or bobbled. Incubus is a male sexual demon who rapes women in the middle of the night. Move to the last lines of the poem where it talks about nails. A nail can be a sexual reference to a penis. Then it says a nail is unison, well a nail can't be unison unless it is hammered into something, referring to sexual intercourse. Once again the last line of the poem is high frequency "sweet" also signifying urgency. So you may be wondering whats so urgent? Look in the middle of the line where she says when the ancient light is clean it is yellow. This signifys that women are intelligent and can think on there own. Ancient referring to old traditions and light referring to intelligence. Then it says it is a silver seller, propagating that women can work and make money like men."This is a please"is referring to her cry out to her husband to please let loose of my chain. The line where it says drink pups drinks means that she wants other women to drink/grasp this message and so they can be free from their husbands chains. "A lean on the shoe means slips slips hers" What can you think of when you slip? It can mean something underneath. The message underneath this poem is that women have rights and can be independent from men. If they step away from the old traditions of men being dominant over women they can accomplish things on there own. I hope that this anlysis was helpful! -
A fine example of absurd crap
From guest Dan Dascalescu (contact)
As unintelligible as this poem may be, I am not impressed in the slightest. A computer would spit out nicer poetry than this brain dump of nonsense. Why do you regard this poem so highly? To be in line with other herd followers who were in line with the first idiot who declared "Awesome poem!"? No, thank you. -
Although David made it fairly clear above, I just want to speak breifly op Steins intentions in this and most every other poem she wrote. Stein would frequently be asked by traditionalists what her poems meant. She laughed at them. There's simply no meaning behind these works. This by no stretch of the imagination discredits her poems, rather, it legitamizes them. Her focus on the musical side of poetry helped spark poetry's movement into modernism in the early 1900's. The key to reading Stein is to do just the opposite, don't read it; instead have it read to you by some obliging soul. Don't ever try to find some hidden meaning, for that would do nothing more than detract from the true symphonic nature of her poetry. I promise you, after hearing this poem as it was intended to be perceived, it's true beauty will become clear. Personally not a week goes by that I don't find myself annunciating the "Drink pups" line. Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold!
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I read this on an encarta cd rom in 8th grade. I'm 22 now. I never actually figured out what it meant til i was reminded of it recently and looked it up.
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In this poem, Stein was stressing sound more than visual imagery and for that matter even words' definitions. Susie Asado was a Spanish dancer, and the prominence of the "s" sound throughout the whole poem alludes to the dance slippers against the floor. The placement of the "s" sounds also develops a rhythm, not necessarily metered, but also creates the rhythmic aspect of dance. Fun stuff. I've loved Gertrude Stein since I discovered her on a CD-ROM encyclopedia when i was 8. At that age i found this poem to be just ridiculous and it sparked my interest ever since. Once i reread the poem for a poetry class, i began to see where her artistic intentions were pointing.
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i was jus kidding i was using her ironic style...
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This perhaps is one of the weirdest poems I have read in a long time. I feel Susie Asado is an actual person; but as this is written it gives me the impresson of a solitary object.
I've read it twice and I can't really discern from its head to its tail. There is much repetition in this piece but I couldn't say if it helps or not. Plus some of the grammar and sentence structure seem off.
I feel this is one to read more than twice, and I feel I will to get a better understanding. But perhaps at a later date, this gives a headache.
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