Under the umbrella of OBJECTS in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, called “Glazed Glitter” and “A Substance in a Cushion” both subtopics resemble that of change. In “Glazed Glitter”, Stein writes, “The change has come. There is no search. But there is, there is that hope and that interpretation and sometime, surely any is unwelcome, sometime there is breath and there will be a sinecure and charming very charming is that clean and cleansing. Certainly glittering is handsome and convincing.” I believe that she is referring to the afterlife in a sense. Based on hope and interpretation, the Christian believes that there is a Heaven they will ascend to after they die. The streets of heaven, similar to this glazed glitter that Stein speaks of, are paved with gold and the land is flowing with milk and honey. This place is much more attractive than this present world, originally referring to its state as nickel, “originally rid of a cover”. It’s bland, everyday nature is exposed to human kind, giving an illusion of a dull and monotonous complexion. Stein uses colors to exemplify or portray change over time in her writings. “That is no color chosen. It was chosen yesterday, that showed spitting and perhaps washing and polishing.” The essential color of something, or its truth, is already chosen. Due to time and situations, the color of that object may fade but ultimately, after washing and polishing of the substance, its true color and beauty will be revealed again.
In regards to Cake under the next topic, FOOD, Stein speaks on what may happen when one does not heed to warning signs, furthermore explained by the usage of colors. “This is today. A can experiment is that which makes a town, makes a town dirty, it is little please. We came back. Two bore, bore what, a mussed ash, ash when there is tin. This meant cake. It was a sign. Another time there was extra a hat pin sought long and this dark made a display. The result was yellow. A caution, not a caution to be…It means some change. No some day.”
In essence, Stein uses the color yellow to resemble warning signs about negative change, for it can lead to destruction. She shows the audience this by referring to the end product resulting in “ashes”. This may also be viewed as death, for “some day” will come that will result in a drastic change of self. All the while on this earth, God gives the people “warning signs” that serve as reminders for those headed in the wrong path. The town is dirty after the experiment because of wrongful deeds and sin that the people have committed. The people resulting in death or ash, was a sign that they did not heed to.
The last poem is an excerpt from ROOMS. “Climate, climate is not southern, a little glass, a bright winter…all this shows that the back is furnished Under the umbrella of OBJECTS in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, called “Glazed Glitter” and “A Substance in a Cushion” both subtopics resemble that of change. In “Glazed Glitter”, Stein writes, “The change has come. There is no search. But there is, there is that hope and that interpretation and sometime, surely any is unwelcome, sometime there is breath and there will be a sinecure and charming very charming is that clean and cleansing. Certainly glittering is handsome and convincing.” I believe that she is referring to the afterlife in a sense. Based on hope and interpretation, the Christian believes that there is a Heaven they will ascend to after they die. The streets of heaven, similar to this glazed glitter that Stein speaks of, are paved with gold and the land is flowing with milk and honey. This place is much more attractive than this present world, originally referring to its state as nickel, “originally rid of a cover”. It’s bland, everyday nature is exposed to human kind, giving an illusion of a dull and monotonous complexion. Stein uses colors to exemplify or portray change over time in her writings. “That is no color chosen. It was chosen yesterday, that showed spitting and perhaps washing and polishing.” The essential color of something, or its truth, is already chosen. Due to time and situations, the color of that object may fade but ultimately, after washing and polishing of the substance, its true color and beauty will be revealed again.
In regards to Cake under the next topic, FOOD, Stein speaks on what may happen when one does not heed to warning signs, furthermore explained by the usage of colors. “This is today. A can experiment is that which makes a town, makes a town dirty, it is little please. We came back. Two bore, bore what, a mussed ash, ash when there is tin. This meant cake. It was a sign. Another time there was extra a hat pin sought long and this dark made a display. The result was yellow. A caution, not a caution to be…It means some change. No some day.”
In essence, Stein uses the color yellow to resemble warning signs about negative change, for it can lead to destruction. She shows the audience this by referring to the end product resulting in “ashes”. This may also be viewed as death, for “some day” will come that will result in a drastic change of self. All the while on this earth, God gives the people “warning signs” that serve as reminders for those headed in the wrong path. The town is dirty after the experiment because of wrongful deeds and sin that the people have committed. The people resulting in death or ash, was a sign that they did not heed to.
and red which is red is a dark color…A climate, a single climate, all the time there is a single climate, any time there is a doubt, any time there is music that is to question more and more and there is no politeness, there is hardly any ordeal and certainly there is no tablecloth.” Here, Stein furthermore uses colors to show that the truth will be revealed and not covered up, just as a tablecloth covers up a table. The world is impolite and corrupt. What’s done in the dark will come to light, and this excerpt relates to the other two poems regarding the power truth.
Each of these three poems from Stein’s Tender Buttons uses articulate diction to display the very aspects of daily life. They include symbolic colors which portray either life, truth, or life after death.
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