Wallace Stevens’s poems showcase an intellectual dimension not meant for the common masses. It is infused with poetic logic rather than rational logic. Stevens’ poems are quite often packed with emblematical images and are not easy to comprehend or paraphrase. The profuse figurative statements are brought into play to convey subtle ideas. The choice of words are quite often incomprehensible as in the phrase “Emperor of Ice-cream.” Stevens was of the opinion that it is “not able to give words a single rational meaning.” The poet gave more significance to technique than sense refusing to divorce meaning from technique. He is a Romantic poet in a different sense:” Imagination merely changes the appearance of this world.” He was of the view that disorder and chaos in the world are rendered order and pattern through imagination. There is no realm beyond this world. His theory of poetry is the theory of life. Stevens considered poetry as a mode of thinking. According to him, reality was what the imagination constructed as a response to desire. For him imagination was equivalent to aspiration. He defines poetry as ‘a holiday in reality.”The Emperor of Ice-cream” was first published in 1922 in the collection Harmonium.…