"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company
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The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens  May 2, 2016 ... Peter Schjeldahl on the poet of The Idea of Order at Key West, and the ... in a three-piece suit, working as a Hartford insurance executive. ... Jar, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, and most of the rest of his poems ..... Like other critics I've read, Mariani ignores the details of Stevens's day job, probably as being...
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Wallace Stevens is born - Oct 02, 1879 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1879, poet Wallace Stevens is born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... poems that are still anthologized today, including Sunday Morning and The Emperor of Ice Cream. ... In the meantime, he prospered at work and became a vice president of the insurance company in 1934. ... 9 Famous Authors With Day Jobs.
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Wallace Stevens - Wikipedia  Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879  August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. .... Stevens, whose work was meditative and philosophical, is very much a poet...
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Wallace Stevens | Poetry Foundation  In 1975, for instance, noted literary critic Harold Bloom, whose writings on ... In 1908 he accepted a post with the American Bonding Company, an insurance firm, and ... his poems Stevens changed jobs again, becoming resident vice-president, .... poetry form haiku, and "The Emperor of Ice Cream," an eloquent exhortation...
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens ...  The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems has 147 ratings and 8 reviews. ... An insurance company executive with a law degree, Wallace Stevens ... is an accessible collection of 14 of Stevens' most popular poems including the .... Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age.
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64. Mending Wall. Robert Frost. Modern American Poetry  SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,. And spills the upper boulders in the sun;. And makes gaps even two...
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The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost - Poetry Foundation  Find poems for weddings, commitment ceremonies, and other occasions. Poems ... 'I told him so last haying, didn't I? If he left .... 'Dead,' was all he answered.
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Poems | Poetry In Voice  Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,. Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;. Stormy, husky, brawling,. City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are...
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Kubla Khan: Stanza I (Lines 1-11) Summary - Shmoop  Summary of Stanza I (Lines 1-11) of the poem Kubla Khan. ... That "stately pleasure dome decree" means that he had a really fancy and beautiful palace built. We want you to know right away that Coleridge is actually talking about a real place ... Marco Polo visited Xanadu, and helped to start the legend of its magnificence.
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Kubla Khan: Stanza III (Lines 31-54) Summary - Shmoop  Summary of Stanza III (Lines 31-54) of the poem Kubla Khan. ... A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! ... to a real place in Ethiopia, some think it's a biblical reference, and others tie it to a place that Milton mentions in Paradise Lost.
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Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston (Signet ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. ... FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books. ... we find two of his most famous poems, Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man. .... Four volumes of his poetryNew Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930),...
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Robert Frost by Jackson Forrestall on Prezi  Robert Frost displays the speaker as being able to work with his neighbor- but ... leaves reader wondering the neighbor's reasoning for keeping the wall up
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Jeopary Questions page 11 - THE CANTERBURY TALES ...  MARSUPIAL RHYME TIME: In 2006 a record number came to the Mozarthaus to celebrate this .... THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS: A Times writer's "Scandalot" featured Maurice Greenberg, who resigned as CEO of this insurance giant.
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Jeopary Questions page 873 - MEET THE PREZ - TriviaBistro.com  POETRY: Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" isn't divided into stanzas or verses, but these (also favored by Ezra Pound)  CELEBRITY RHYME TIME: Crowe's...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Poems  Hello Poetry  Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. ... Wher that he was, ne mighte o word out-bringe, ..... I saw his sleeves *purfil'd at the hand *worked at the end with a ..... that is, of the estate which bears the same name as its owner's ...... Saving a child that was of half year age,
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Stylistic Analysis Kubla khan | Syed Alam - Academia.edu  50 BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The poem Kubla Khan was inspired by the .... It was a miracle of rare device. A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
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Free Flashcards about POETS & POETRY - StudyStack  HE WAS A ROMANTIC POET, A LAKE POET, A POET LAUREATE, AND THE POET WHO PENNED "ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS", WORDSWORTH. IN 1854...
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All About Heaven - Poet  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792  1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets ... He was an atheist, but wrote pure mystic verse. ... Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, ... His major works, however, are long visionary poems that include Queen Mab,...
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Ogden Nash - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Among his best known lines are Candy / Is dandy, / But liquor / Is quicker and If called by a panther / Don't anther. His poems also had an intensely...
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Mending Wall - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Mending Wall - Something there is that doesn't love a wall, ... North of Boston ... He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in .... having thought of it so well He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors. ... One of the most celebrated poets in America, Robert Frost was an author of...
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Eskimo Pie: A Famous Iowa-made Product  Iowa Pathways  Christian Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, had a great idea! He was an ice cream vendor. In 1920 a child, who wanted both an ice cream sandwich and a chocolate bar, inspired Nelson to create ... He froze a coating of chocolate around a slice of ice cream. ... He got it patented and then teamed up with Omaha confectioner Russell...