The Emperor of Ice-cream


   The Emperor of Ice-cream


 
            The emperor of ice-cream is the most popular poem of Wallace Stevens. Stevens “plots” this story into two equal stanzas: one for the kitchen where the ice-cream is being made, and another for the bedroom where the corpse await decent covering.


           The very title of the poem ‘the Emperor ice-cream’ is a catchy one because the poet is talking about the emperor in the age of democracy. All emperor are remain in the pages of history only. Moreover the poet is talking about ‘the emperor of ice-cream’. This metaphor is quite relevant in modern context. Because we all are emperor of ice-cream is the symbol of fun and we not only crave for ice-cream but we enjoy it when we get it the poet observes that life itself is ice-cream enjoy it before it melt away. Moreover, ice-cream has two antithetical images in ice-cream, ice is cold and coldness refer to death here we can connect it with The Waste land by T.S.Eliot. And other is cream which is sweet and sweetness refers to life. The poet says that ice-creams temporary and it goes with materialistic life. We (modern people) are living in materialistic world and we enjoy sensuous pleasure  we enjoy ice-cream because it is tasty but it does not last long. In the poem the poet satirizing the life style of modern people by using undertone and says that we are not thinking about eternity or permanency and we are not aware of the inevitable death in modern times the only emperor of ice-cream. The poem is divided into two sections and both the sections are made of irregular and unrhymed lines. At the end of each section of the text the poet has projected the same line and it exemplifies the structural repetition. In the first section the reference ‘dawdle’ ‘wenches’ suggest sexuality and the entire poem written in mocking tone by poet.


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