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Jul 4, 2024 · "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens examines the fleeting nature of life and the inevitability of death. The poem contrasts the vibrant, sensual pleasures of life,...
4 days ago · When Poems Ancient and Modern offered William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” last week, we struggled against the 20th-century reading of the poem as all about sex. With Today’s Poem, “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” we switch sides — to argue that the 1922 poem by Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) is actually about sex. Well, mostly. Sex and death.
Jul 9, 2024 · Amanda Holmes reads Wallace Stevens’s “Peter Quince at the Clavier.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
6 days ago · The Man With The Blue Guitar Poem by Wallace Stevens. Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments Images. The Man With The Blue Guitar. as green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
Jul 4, 2024 · What is the theme of "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens? The poem seems to be about loneliness and regret.
5 days ago · Six Significant Landscapes Poem by Wallace Stevens. Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments Images. Six Significant Landscapes. I. An old man sits. In the shadow of a pine tree. In China. He sees larkspur, Blue and white, At the edge of the shadow, Move in the wind. His beard moves in the wind. The pine tree moves in the wind. Thus water flows.
6 days ago · No Possum, No Sop, No Taters. He is not here, the old sun, As absent as if we were asleep. The field is frozen. The leaves are dry. Bad is final in this light. In this bleak air the broken stalks. Have arms without hands.
