A Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock Comments

A poem which is like a painting using bright colors-purple, green' blue. The people about to fall asleep to have exotic dreams, There is just 'an old sailor, / Drunk and asleep in his boots'. There are many connotations packed into these fifteen lines, I find.

People do not have much imagination except for occasional drunken sailors. I think poets in general are very like drunken sailors. Stevens' love affair with imagination is succinctly expressed here and I love catching tigers in red weather as an image and a metaphor for a man of imagination.

I'm afraid the title is not 'A' Disillusionment. It is simply 'Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.' -G