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https://www.enotes.com/topics/ball-game/in-depth

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Wallace Stevens loved to include humor and imagery that attatch to your senses. The Emperor of Ice-Cream is a funny name, and there's lots of sensory details in the poem.

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The tone of this poem is very conversational as she open up the poem with "I too dislike it" as if she were recording part of a previous conversation.

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Written in free verse but also formed in stanzas.

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The tone and mood starts out lighthearted but slowly gets darker throughout the poem.

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This poem is about how people can interpret poetry. She explains that she doesn't like poetry because it seems meaningless but when you look deeper, you may find something of worth. However, once these themes evolve so deeply that they are almost impossible to understand, people will stop trying to understand them. Then she goes on to say how poems should not veer from "basic" topics and that if you are wanting them to contain all the "deeper meaning" stuff, then you actually like poetry.

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The purpose of the poem is talking about how poetry should be accessible, so there are not many complicated metaphors or other figurative language examples.

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This poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme and is in free verse.

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The poem is about a crowd at a baseball game, describing the unruliness of the crowd. It shows how mob mentality affects the people in the crowd.

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Ice Cream = Pleasures and good things in life
(Ice cream was served at funerals where Wallace Stevens lived in Key West)
Alliteration = "kitchen cups concupiscent curds"

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"Bring in the big strong man who makes cigars, and tell him to get to work making ice cream from lusty curds of milk. Tell the women they can wear whatever they normally wear, and tell the boys to bring flowers wrapped up in old newspaper. Let reality triumph over illusion. There's only one real emperor: the emperor of ice cream.
Inside a drawer of the pine dresser (which is missing three of its glass knobs) you'll find a bedsheet belonging to the dead woman, one which she herself stitched with elaborate patterns. Lay it over her body and make sure her face is covered. If her feet (with their bunions and toes like horns) stick out at the bottom, it's just to remind us that she's cold and dead. Fix the lamplight on her in full glare. There's only one real emperor—the emperor of ice cream."

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1Call the roller of big cigars,

2The muscular one, and bid him whip

3In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

4Let the wenches dawdle in such dress

5As they are used to wear, and let the boys

6Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.

7Let be be finale of seem.

8The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

9Take from the dresser of deal,

10Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet

11On which she embroidered fantails once

12And spread it so as to cover her face.

13If her horny feet protrude, they come

14To show how cold she is, and dumb.

15Let the lamp affix its beam.

16The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

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1Call the roller of big cigars, 2The muscular one, and bid him whip 3In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. 4Let the wenches dawdle in such dress 5As they are used to wear, and let the boys 6Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. 7Let be be finale of seem.

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The first group has no rhyme scheme until the two last lines, but the second group has a rhyme scheme of AABB (sort of).

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It uses imagery and descriptive language often. The crowd is also an extended metaphor for any group of people.

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You can see how she loved to use fancy words and ornate language to describe ordinary things which is mentioned that she is known for doing that in her earlier poems.

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William's goal was to write "distinctly american" poetry, and baseball is known as America's pastime. This poem shows how he chose to write about subjects and experiences familiar to Americans.

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The poem seems like it should be lighthearted and funny but apparently it's about death so the actual tone is slightly more dark.