This work asks for guests who have come to see the "cold" and "dumb" woman who once "embroidered fantails" on the sheet that now covers her face but neglects to hide "her [protruding] horny feet.
In this poem, "three glass knobs" are missing from a drawer, and the narrator notes that boys that should "bring flowers" in "last month's newspapers" and "wenches [that] dawdle" in typical dresses. This work asks for guests who have come to see the "cold" and "dumb" woman who once "embroidered fantails" on the sheet that now covers her face but neglects to hide "her [protruding] horny feet." Calling for the title figure to "whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds," for 10 points, identify this poem in which the narrator calls for the "roller of big cigars," and declares, "Let be be finale of seem," written by Wallace Stevens.
In this poem, "three glass knobs" are missing from a drawer, and the narrator notes that boys that should "bring flowers" in "last month's newspapers" and "wenches [that] dawdle" in typical dresses.
"The Emperor of Ice Cream"