Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock By: Wallace Stevens

The houses are hounded
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 centuies .
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles .
Only, here are there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches Tigers
In red weather.


...................................... Ok, no lie I read this poem like one hundred and fifty thousand times and I never undersood it! But on the one hundred and fifty first time I got something, and I got that there are people that do not live life in a way and do not go out and have any fun. In the first two line he says " The houses are haunted by white night-gowns." To me this is saying that people are plain and do not not change and mix things up but just stay the same. Just like the color white, it is very plan and is a frowned apon color and this is why the house is hounted ( Ghosts.) Throughout the poem he is listing off a bunch of different colors and he is saying that none of them are strang, implying that being yourself and doing things you want are not bad and people do not think differenty of you, and he is trying to say that dont worry about what others are going to say and do the things you want. At the end he is talking about a sailor and I got that he has seen the world and and in his dreams he catches tigers and is trying to show that he lives and dreams of what he wants and has no worries about people think, showing that he is a red color, a different color than anyone else and he is totally fine about it.