From the perspective of the poet himself, the poem The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens is not an affirmation of the secular life, but an affirmation of reality, a deconstruction of the power of imagination or poetry itself.

• 就诗人的本意来看,《冰激淋皇帝》一诗不是对现世生活的肯定,而是对现实的肯定,对想像力和诗歌本身的消解和否定,因而构成了一个用诗歌来解构诗歌的悖论。