The modern theme of "Emperor of Ice Cream

When we look at Wallace Stevens poetry , it is very easy to identify Stevens being a Modernist. Stevens' works match with Modernist thought much more than Frost's. He is completely Modernist. When we take a look on his poem " Emperor of Ice Cream" we see that he tells us how a modern funeral is being done. He wants to say that , death is a normal thing that we all going to experience one day; In …

…end we all become the dead woman, "cold" and"dumb," when death comes for us. Stevens was also called Supreme Fiction because he was thinking that poetry as a way of understanding reality. Wallace Stevens sees poetry as a way of understanding reality. So he uses Modernism as a response of social troubles like , being poor , alienated , loneleness and culture .As a result he wrote and criticize about this theme. <Tab/>