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by Wallace Stevens
 * Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock**

 T - The title suggests someone is disillusioned at 10:00. Perhaps they are drunk or experiencing hallucinations. P - The poem begins by describing a house that is filled ("haunted") with people wearing white night gowns. Maybe it is nighttime. Or a lazy morning. He specificallysays the night gowns are white, not green or any other design. The speaker highlights that they are not "strange" but very average looking. He says the people are not dreaming of baboons or periwinkles. He adds that a drunk sailor is catching tigers in his sleep. C - Imagery: the nightgown possibilities. -- Illustrates the mundane-ness of the people. Details: Baboons, periwinkles, colors -- shows how imaginative they could be. Diction: Dull&dark -- haunted.... shows dullness of their lives. Form: very short and blunt -- A - The attitude of the speaker seems bored. He is criticizing the people for being so unimaginative. S - The shift occurs after line 11 when he stops describing the boring people and how mundane they are and switchesto describing the drunk sailor who has the capability to dream. T - The theme of poem is dreaming and imagination. He is suggesting people should be more imaginative and dream and go above and beyond. T - The title is still not very clear but it basically is saying that those boring, unimaginative people are "disillusioned" because of their lack of creativity. The time seems random, but it fits because he is describing them in a ghost-like way at night time to create a dark and haunted feeling.

SCRIPT:  There is not much we can judge by the title of the poem. It only hints about some kind of disillusionment at 10:00. This mystifying pattern is continued throughout the actual poem as well. The poet begins with forbidding imagery. He describes a haunted house filled with “white night gowns” which depict a ghost-like image. The imagery then shifts as the poet describes what is //not// in the house. Here, there are lots of details of colors and patterns. The colors are very basic, yet put into strange combinations like “purple with green rings.” The majority of the poem is filled with details of what is NOT present. After line 11, the poem takes a shift. Rather than describing people who like creativity, it focuses on the sailor. Even though the sailor seems like a normal sailor, he is depicted as the one with the inventive imagination. Although the poet still uses basic diction, like “red”, he uses it in an unusual way to describe the weather. There is also a shift here when he says the sailor “catches tigers” rather than “dreams” of catching tigers, making the dream become reality.  Basically, this poem is about dreaming and imagination. The poet contrasts two types of people – boring people who don’t delve into their imaginations and go beyond what they are capable of and people who seem average but have the ability to go above and beyond.