Wallace Stevens

Today I have chosen to talk about Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream". This is a rather short poem of just two stanzas both of wich are octaves. There is use of anaphora with the word "Let" in lines 4 and 7 in the first stanza and again in line 15 of the second stanza. Stevens also used rhym in lines 7 and 8 with the words seem and cream and again in  lines 14 and fifteen with the words beam and cream. I could sit here and practice analyzing this whole time but I would also like to talk about my interpretation of this poem. I take this so called "emperor of ice-cream" to soemwhat be of a disgrace. In lines 12 and 13 it talks about how "cold and dumb" the girl would be to let her feet protrude. To me this sound very sexual. This girl would be looked down upon if she slept with this whore of a man. The poem sort of glorifies this person with all the vivide pictures Stevens paints with the descriptions of the boys carrying flowers and the women in dresses. This man is glorified but not by this narrartor, instead this narrarotor is being  very sarcastice at the beginning. Insulting this character by saying bring all these great things it means nothing. I do however wonder if the narrartor has some sort of connection to the woman in the poem and maybe there could be a sense of jealousy. I am hoping that we discuss this poem in class so that I can get a better understanding for what this truely is about and if I am even close in my interpretation.