Wallace+Stevens


 * __Wallace Stevens: __** An American Modernist poet born in the year of 1879 and died in the year of 1955.

Wallace Stevens was educated at Harvard as a non-degree special student in Reading, Pennsylvania. He then moved to New York and was a journalist for some time. Stevens then attended the New York Law School and graduated in 1903. He spent some of his lifetime being a lawyer for the Harvard insurance company in Connecticut. While returning to Pennsylvania he met a woman named Elsie Viola Kachel. A little while after, he married her even though his parents objected not to marry a woman from the lower-class. None of his family attended his wedding and Stevens did not visit or speak to his parents until after his father died. He had been making numerous visits to Key West, Florida for a business trip and he lodged in Casa Marina. Key West influenced his poetry greatly, for he described it as a Paradise. He has seen Robert Frost at least twice during his visits and they have argued both times. Stevens spent the last days of his life suffering from stomach cancer at the St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. He was released for a short time and then readmitted and died on August 2, 1955. He was buried in Hartford's Cedar Hill Cemetery at age 75.


 * Two Poems written by Wallace Stevens:

**The Emperor of Ice-Cream ** Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle 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 ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal. Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">On which she embroidered fantails once <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">And spread it so as to cover her face. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">If her horny feet protrude, they come <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">To show how cold she is, and dumb. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Let the lamp affix its beam. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wallace Stevens **

**<span style="color: #fa7f57; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Snow Man ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">One must have a mind of winter <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">To regard the frost and the boughs <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">And have been cold a long time <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">To behold the junipers shagged with ice, <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The spruces rough in the distant glitter

<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Of the January sun; and not to think <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Of any misery in the sound of the wind, <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">In the sound of a few leaves,

<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Which is the sound of the land <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Full of the same wind <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">That is blowing in the same bare place <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">For the listener, who listens in the snow, <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">And, nothing himself, beholds <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wallace Stevens **

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