The Emperor of Ice Cream?-?Wallace Stevens

What is ice cream? People loved it. People like it because of the sensuality. However, everyone knows that if you don't eat ice cream for a while, it will melt. In a way, it's a fleeting pleasure, like sex, flowers, the daily paper, life itself. In his poem "The Ice Cream Emperor," poet Wallace Stevens describes a busy kitchen and uses the word "cold" to describe a woman's body. Stevens associates the coldness of death with frozen desserts, implicitly hinting at some of the greatest similarities between death and the sensuality of life.

Call the roller of big cigars,

Call the roller of big cigars,

The muscular one, and bid him whip

< p> That muscular man, tell him

In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Go to the kitchen and make a cup of erotic ice cream.

Let the wenches dawdle in such dress

Let the wenches wear ordinary clothes

As they are used to wear, and let the boys

Come hang out and let the boys

Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.

Let be be finale of seem.

Let "seem" finally become "is"

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

The only emperor The emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,

Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet

< p> Please take that one out of it

On which she embroidered fantails once

And spread it so as to cover her face.

Spread out to cover her face.

If her horny feet protrude, they come

To show how cold she is, and dumb.

It means that her whole body is cold and she can't speak.

Let the lamp affix its beam.

Let the lamp affix its beam.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.