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- Title
Death and Pleasure in Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice-Cream."
- Authors
Dilworth, Thomas
- Abstract
This article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens. It explores on the complex and vexed relationships among the reader, the speaker and the figure of the emperor of ice cream of the poem. The use of the hortatory verb form to link biblical God and the speaker is explained. The author provides intriguing interpretation of the poem as containing daring implications of erotic perversion.
- Subjects
EMPEROR of Ice-Cream, The (Poem : Stevens); STEVENS, Wallace, 1879-1955; CRITICISM; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); THEMES in poetry; POETRY explication
- Publication
Wallace Stevens Journal, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 2, p144
- ISSN
0148-7132
- Publication type
Literary Criticism