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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
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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.
Wallace Stevens
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Carrie D'amato (10/9/2008 9:24:00 PM)
I have to agree with C Carey. Stevens was most noted for his exploration of reality and the imagination, and how they are reconciled. This poem is more about the reality of the world lacking an imagination except for a drunk, or rather a man not who is not perceived as part of the mainstream. |
Gosia Dobosz (12/30/2007 3:23:00 PM)
Well, I think it's funny - not stupid at all. Poetry doesn't have to be deadly serious. Don't you think? |
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