Everything you need to understand or teach The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Poem) by Wallace Stevens.
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a two-stanza poem by twentieth-century American poet Wallace Stevens. It was originally published in 1923 in Stevens's first book of poetry titled Harmonium during the modernist literary movement. The poem features an unknown speaker who is making arrangements for a wake or a funeral. The poem uses disjointed imagery and hyperbolic language to offer a meditation on life and death.
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