 Commentators have indicated that what she meant was that the "reference" of objects remained central to her work, although the "representation" of them had not.Scholar Marjorie Perloff had said of Stein that "[u]nlike her contemporaries (Eliot, Pound, Moore), she does not give us an image, however fractured, of a carafe on a table; rather, she forces us to reconsider how language actually constructs the world we know.