Archive for April, 2007
Poetry Friday: Wallace Stevens’ The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Emperor of Ice Cream
by Wallace Stevens, from Harmonium
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dwadle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of [...]
On Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”
Okay, the much belated entry on Stevens’ “The Snow Man.” If you haven’t had a look at the poem itself yet, find it here in Poetry Friday stack.
This particular poem has been with me since my freshman year of college. And I still find things in it I hadn’t noticed before. Like just now, I [...]
National Poetry Month at Homeschool Kid Lit
Fitting that our month devoted to poetry begins with a day for fools. I say that in all love–I think it takes being something of a fool to be something as a poet.
Fools take risks. They do tricks. They get away with all manner of outrageous words and deeds. They don’t ask for the attention [...]
Poetry Friday: Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”
The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens, from Harmonium
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of [...]
