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Stevens’s poem uses ice cream to suggest ideas of transience, luxury, life, and death. Choose a food and develop a list of associations connected to it. Like Stevens, try to link sense associations (ice cream is cold) to larger abstractions (death is cold).
Learn More. "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is one of the most well-known poems by American Modernist poet Wallace Stevens. The poem appears in Stevens's widely influential debut collection, Harmonium, which was published in 1923. The meaning of the poem is notoriously ambiguous, but its two equal-length stanzas present clear enough scenarios.
5 de jul. de 2012 · The emperor of ice-cream, and other poems : Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Wallace Stevens: “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”. To tease out the meaning of “ The Emperor of Ice-Cream ,” one of the most famously elliptical poems of the 20th century, maybe we should start by looking into the meaning of ice cream itself. It turns out that its implications have changed a bit over time.
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In the first lines of this piece, the speaker asserts his dominance by giving a command. He tells someone, the reader does not know who, to call in the “roller of big cigars.” It is likely that there is something important happening or an occasion to be marked. The cigar is going to be a big one, rolled by the most “muscular” of the rollers. This w...
The next line includes the word “wench.” It has traditionally been used to refer to a female prostitute or a woman whose life was in some way not her own. The speaker is offhandedly referring to these types of women and at once telling them to wear “such dress” as they are “used to wear.” Whatever the occasion is, there is no reason for the women t...
The seventh and eighth lines are couplets and begin with the confusing repetitionof “be.” In a clearer rephrasing of the line the speaker is asking that life’s “be[ing]” be left alone. He does not want anyone to do anything that would obscure reality. Everyone should live as they always have, regardless of the still as yet unknown event. Finally, t...
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3 de ago. de 2016 · ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ may well qualify for the accolade of ‘most baffling poem of the entire twentieth century’. Written by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) and published in his 1923 volume Harmonium , the poem is reproduced below, along with a brief analysis of the poem’s meaning and language.
