American literature of the early 20th century saw the rise of a number of influential authors writing in a new style. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound, among many others, left an undeniably deep impact on how we write, even today. The author and poet Gertrude Stein is sometimes included in such lists, but her work is notably less influential than that of her contemporaries. For a number of reasons, critics have often pinned her work as an eccentricity worthy of little more than a historical footnote.
For one, Stein’s works tend to be inaccessible to the reader, primarily because she did not clearly communicate thoughts and emotions in much of her writing. Literary critic Edmund Wilson asserted that Stein’s shortcoming was that she took many of the concepts that underlay Cubism, a style of painting that emphasized visual representation without clear emotion or meaning, and attempted to apply them to language. This resulted in work that relied heavily on the sounds of the words used, rather than on the meanings they held.
Moreover, Stein’s work rarely included conventional punctuation. Her sentences blend together into long, unbroken chains, without commas or periods to signal where one idea ends and another begins. In avoiding punctuation so often, Stein made her prose and poetry unnecessarily difficult to decipher. Few authors have avoided punctuation in the same way because it simply distracts from the writer’s message and adds little value, if any.
Certainly, it is easy to be deceived as to Stein’s literary influence by the historical importance of Stein’s salon—regular gatherings in her home frequented by a number of renowned artists. However, in studies of American literature, the work produced by a figure is far more valuable than are their social connections. Although Stein was close with several major authors and artists of the time, that fact alone does not give her real historical significance.
The reading and lecture are both about Gertrude Stein's writing style. The article's author feels that Stein's work was less impressive than that of her contemporaries. The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. Her position is that the author of the article clearly did not like Stein's style.
According to the reading, Gertrude Stein did not clarify the meaning of her works; instead, she depended on the sound of the words used. The article mentions that this side of her writings made them inaccessible to the reader. The lecturer, however, asserts that a lot of poets and authors relied on the voice of words. She says that Stein had influenced all these poets and authors.
Secondly, the author suggests that Steins rarely used punctuation in her writings. In the article, it is said that lacking punctuation makes the poems inapprehensible. The lecture challenges this argument. She claims that Stein believed that punctuation was unnecessary. Additionally, she points out that Gertrude Stein had a unique perspective in writing that people should praise.
Finally, the author posits that Steins was praised because of her salon, where famous artists gathered. The author contends that the work produced by the writer is more important than their connections. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is Stein had effects on other's literature styles. She notes that Gertrude had changed the people around her and did not depend on her salon to be a well-known writer.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...han their connections. In contrast, the lecturers stance is Stein had effects on others l...
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Suggestion: others'; other's
...ecturers stance is Stein had effects on others literature styles. She notes that Gertr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1245.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 240.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1875 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93597934253 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6743087113 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541666666667 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 361.8 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.5495502054 49.2860985944 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 73.2352941176 110.228320801 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.1176470588 21.698381199 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0703603178583 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0275404339101 0.0996497079465 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0290190611789 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0498468978737 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0179158128242 0.0443174109184 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.23 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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