Rosenbloom

Rosenbloom is a fictional, common name that appears in "Cortege fo Rosenbloom" (1923), a Wallace Stevens' poem that, according to Richard Ellmann, satirizes "[t]he ceremony of conventional mourning, its stilted decorum, its withdrawal of the dead man from the natural world, [and] its figmental afterlife." [1] The solemn tone, simple language, alliteration, and rhythm of the poem lend false import to the funeral procession for Rosenbloom, who is an unknown and insignificant figure, much as all humans are unknown and insignificant in a much larger, universal sense.
==Notes==
1. Ellmann 90.
==References==
Ellmann, Richard. "Wallace Stevens' Ice-Cream." The Kenyon Review 19.1 (Winter 1957): 89-105. Web. 18 Dec. 2013.