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Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) Life  Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955. He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904, the year he met Elsie Kachel, a young woman from Reading, whom he married in 1909. They had one daughter, Holly Bight, born in 1924. Family Album works ☆Harmonium 1923 《风琴》 ☆Ideas of Order 1935《关于秩序的思想》 ☆The Man with the Blue Guitar 1937《带蓝吉他的人》 ☆Parts of a World 1942《世界的各部分》 ☆Transport to Summer 1947《入夏》 ☆The Auroras of Autumn 1950《秋天的曙光》 ☆The Necessary Angel 1951《必要的天使》 (these seven works established him as a major American poet) Collected Poems 1954《诗歌合集》（won National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize) Opus Posthumous 1957《遗著》 Letters 1966《书信集》 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 months 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 On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face. If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb. Let the lamp affix its beam. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream Setting and Summary The time is the early 20th Century. (The poem was published in 1922). The place is the residence of a deceased woman in an American city. It is uncertain whether the residence is a house or an apartment. Apparently people of Latin-Americ