Sunday, November 21, 2010

Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock

This poem was really confusing and I didn't like it all that much. I looked up some analysis' of this poem online to get an idea of what other people thought it was about and I agreed with some that said Wallace Stevens was talking about people are losing their ability to dream and to imagine. People get so caught up with their every day lives they forget about the dreams they once had and they forget to their goals to fulfill them.
The part where Stevens talks about the different colored night-gowns with different colored rings, he says the house is haunted by simple, plain white night-gowns and white is just ordinary, it's not exciting or imaginative, just plain. He also says, "None of them are strange," which is just saying once again that normalcy that many people accept.
I think the sailor, is a traveler that goes out and fulfills his dream. He uses a sailor because maybe not as much as today, but in earlier times, sailor's traveled the world, exploring and creating adventures. So the last part, "Catches tigers In red weather." is showing how a person willing to go out and accomplish their dreams are imaginative, and a little strange.

1 comment:

  1. Many blogs discussed their confusion with this one. :) You are not alone!

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