Gertrude Stein Poem Recreation

The poem that I recreated to mirror Gertrude Stein's poem, "Touch Buttons" helped me to learn a little more about words and poetry. The three topics that I wrote about were a Penny, a Chocolate Kiss, and the Dining Room. I believe these poems turned out well and were very interesting to write. By recreating poems that resembled "Touch Buttons" I was forced to look at simple everyday objects. food, and rooms in a new light. I looked at a penny as more than a monetary unit, I looked at chocolate as more than food, and the dining room as more than a place of gathering. I tried to evaluate how people use pennies and the characteristics of a pennies while deciding how to approach my poem. I also looked at chocolate and who eats it, when it is given to others, and when it is craved. I looked at a dining room as more than a place to eat, but a place where conversation is shared and love is enhanced.
After I was finished writing my poem I decided to do an experiment on it. I choose to combine the poem I created with one of my favorite poems, "Footprints." I alternated each line of my poem into the "Footprints" poem to create one. This created a poem that was very unique. When the reader reads the poem it is obvious that it is two poems put together, but you can grasp the meaning of both. Both poems have very different styles. My poem was about thinking of everyday objects, food, and rooms, where as the "Footprints" poem is about thinking of a greater force than what we see everyday. I think the fact that both requires thought is very obvious, but the subject matter of both being so different makes the combination of the two very inspiring. The poem is challenging you to think about things differently. It is challenging the reader to think about objects, food, and rooms differently, but also your faith.
Through this experiment of combining two poems I did something a little different with language. The alternation of lines of both poems requires the reader to change their reading habits due to the difference in language in each line. For example, the first line of the poem is from the "Footprints" poem. In this line the reader can relax and read the line easily because it is written like a normal sentence. The second and all even numbered lines that the reader reads require a little more thought and concentration. The language in this part of the poem is choppy and fragmented. The words do not flow nicely like they do for all the odd numbered lines in the poem. The difference in language and flow from one sentence to the next keeps the reader aware and awake because every even numbered line is much different from the odd number lines and does not flow nicely.