Disillusionment of Ten O Clock
Kerr Craige
Disillusionment of Ten O’clock
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers In red weather.
This poem was written by a man named Stevens Wallace. Stevens Wallace was born in 1879. He was born In Pennsylvania and was a gifted and known as a talented poet. Disillusionment of ten o clock was one of his more popular best known poems. Steve Wallace was well educated and attended Harvard. When he graduated he became a lawyer and wrote pomes in his free time.
When i first read the poem Disillusionment of ten o clock, I completely missed the concept of the poem. After about a few half dozen times I realized what seven Wallace was trying to explain. The first time I read the poem I believed it was talking about brides being left at the altar, or the ‘KKK’ due to the third line “by white night gowns “. What helped me realize what I was reading was not what the author was trying to explain, was the word in the title disillusionment. This gave me the idea that maybe what I was reading was more in depth than what I see. In this poem of Disillusionment of Ten O’ Clock, Stevens’ comments on the boring lives majority of the people live. He describes this by using word play, repletion, comparison and metaphorically. He also describes and compares the majority of the boring people’s lives to a drunken sailor who is the opposite of the people in the houses.
The beginning of the poem Stevens mentions “haunted houses by white night gowns”. Stevens does not actually mean actual ghost, and he does not mean the houses are really haunted. What he really means is the people who are wearing the white night gowns are boring and dull. He makes this
Disillusionment of Ten O’clock
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers In red weather.
This poem was written by a man named Stevens Wallace. Stevens Wallace was born in 1879. He was born In Pennsylvania and was a gifted and known as a talented poet. Disillusionment of ten o clock was one of his more popular best known poems. Steve Wallace was well educated and attended Harvard. When he graduated he became a lawyer and wrote pomes in his free time.
When i first read the poem Disillusionment of ten o clock, I completely missed the concept of the poem. After about a few half dozen times I realized what seven Wallace was trying to explain. The first time I read the poem I believed it was talking about brides being left at the altar, or the ‘KKK’ due to the third line “by white night gowns “. What helped me realize what I was reading was not what the author was trying to explain, was the word in the title disillusionment. This gave me the idea that maybe what I was reading was more in depth than what I see. In this poem of Disillusionment of Ten O’ Clock, Stevens’ comments on the boring lives majority of the people live. He describes this by using word play, repletion, comparison and metaphorically. He also describes and compares the majority of the boring people’s lives to a drunken sailor who is the opposite of the people in the houses.
The beginning of the poem Stevens mentions “haunted houses by white night gowns”. Stevens does not actually mean actual ghost, and he does not mean the houses are really haunted. What he really means is the people who are wearing the white night gowns are boring and dull. He makes this