Another strange poem I have read today, but this one had some interesting illustrations surrounding it. This could be from the look of the illustration and how the poem is written, but i can see this as a kids type poem. Of course this cant be a real children's poem because of some use of words that would be bad for a kid to learn. But this poem has that fun, creative and imaginative style of writing. I don't know why it is hard for me to find the tone/feel of some poems (that part should be easy). After reading this a couple of times I didn't feel anything, just that it was fun to read and that it had a similar style of telling tales of some hero or legendary figure or a tale that could be told on Halloween night to scare kids (or that could be just me and how i read it). This poem is making sure that the readers know of this Emperor of Ice Cream, and i like how they end both poems with this line 'The Only Emperor is the Emperor of ice-cream.'
I also thought it was interesting how both poems have a figure in the top center above the poem, giving the readers a visual of what the poem below them might be referring to. Also that in the first poem we have a sad looking skull man and behind him are living kids with ice cream. Maybe he is sad because he no longer has his sense of taste. And on the bottom with the living woman in the center of the page, behind her are skull people wearing the same clothes as the kids above. I think those little details are cool, and makes you jump from a picture of mostly living to mostly dead. Like i said, if it wasn't for some words not good for kids, from the style of writing to the illustrations looks like a poem out of a kids book. In this case a kid that is very into skulls and gothic stuff.
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