The Battle of Two Confusing Poems: Stevens vs. Moore

Ok. The two poems i chose to compare and contrast were Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" and Marianne Moore's "To a Snail". These two poems completely baffled my mind. i didn't understand what either poet was trying to say in either of their poems. The only two similarities i can clearly see between the two is that there really isn't any set rhyme scheme and that each poem confuses the hell out of every single person that dares to read the poems. In "The Emperor of Ice Cream" i can honestly say that i have no idea what exactly the message is that Stevens' is trying to get across here. I dont think that he is talking about ice cream because i dont see any references in the poem that resmeble anything about ice cream or making ice cream. in fact, the only lines in the poem that even mention ice cream are the final lines of each stanza that say "the only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream". Moore's poem is a little less confusing than the last one by Stevens, but i guess i just dont really understand why she is writing a poem about a snail. in this poem Moore compliments a snail's abilitly to contract and move without feet. So, i have found the difference between the two poems: i can actually understand what Moore is talking about as opposed to Stevens poem. Like in Stevens' poem, Moore's also has a lack of a rhyme scheme and i also dont really understand the overall message of her poem. Overall, these two poems just really confuse me because no matter how hard i think about it, i can not figure out what each poets overall message is in the their poem.