Comment on the theme of Wallace Steven’s poem ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream.’

 Sunday Morning is a meditative poem in which Stevens presents a woman who is frightened by the thought of death when she hears the church bells. The poet initially appreciates the woman's rational thoughts as she refuses to accept the romantic fancies of the Christian afterlife and wants to but when the woman, however, seeks some kind of "imperishable bliss", the poet turns against her and begins to criticize her complacency. In the criticism of the woman, we are also criticized because most of us are like her in that we fail to live up to our reasonable thoughts and philosophies and fall back to fail to live up to our reasonable thoughts and philosophies and fall back to the same traps of fantastic ideas given by our religions or myths. In the first four stanzas, we see the woman rejoicing life, nature and its beauty: she explicitly rejects the dogmas of religion, and embraces the concrete reality and beauty of the world and life. The poet suddenly interrupts this strain of the woman's meditation and begins to expound an opposite philosophy about the "beauty of death"! Stevens has shown what place death has in being. In one sense, the poem is an argument with a woman who, on one Sunday Morning, is prompted to think of Christ's sacrificial death and of the heaven, which Christ opened to man by dying for him... The poet mocks heaven and the attempt to abstract life from being and leave death behind. Because life is such a good thing, death, upon which life depends, must also be a good thing for Stevens.

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