Mina Loy

Today I would like to talk about Mina Loy's poem, "Gertrude Stein". This poem is one stanza long with nine lines. It has personification in lines 5-7 as follows, "she crushed/ the tonnage/ of consciousness". It is known after reading the biography, that Mina Loy was friends with Gertrude Stein, but why would she name a poem after her? Through  my research I found that Gertrude  Stein was a lesbiand, actually she was infactuated with the fact of being a lesbiand. Most people say that that is all she could talk and write about. It is never stated anywhere that I could find, that Gertrude and Mina had sexual relations, but shouldn't it be questioned? Could this poem be a secret love poem to Gertrude. Clearly the poem is to Gertrude, given that that is the title, but what about the content. The poem talks about a famous scientist, Mari Curie, who discovered radium and was the first woman to win the Nobel Piece Prize. But why would Mina write a poem about a scientist and name it after Gertrude? Obviously there has to be symmbolism in this poem. The way I interpreted this is that the whole poem is a symbol. The poem goes on to explain how the scientist powered through to find "radium". I found this in the same lines I mentioned before. I feel that Mina Loy is trying to symbolize all the Gertrude Stein pushed through, possibly including her lesbianism, if that is even a word. I do however feel that Mina Loy wrote this poem as a reflection of Gertrude Stein's accomplishments and did so through symbolyism of an astonishing scientist.