Modernist Approach To The Reality Of Death In Poems The Emperor Of Ice Cream By Wallace Stevens And Stop All The Clocks By W. H. Auden
Both Stevens and Auden incorporate similar understandings of death, as their poems portray a melancholy tone and the use of irony-based examples related to the characteristics of Modernism. In Stevens’s poem, “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” he evokes the theme of death, in which one...