Disillusionment at Ten O’ Clock

I thought I was being clever by picking a short poem but, it turns out that was a bad idea. I read Disillusionment at Ten O’ Clock and was completely confused. I finally conclude that this poem is about how you live your life. In the beginning Stevens talks about “The houses are haunted, by white night-gowns” This means the houses “society” are haunted by white plain normal night gowns. We are cursed with our own normalcy. I took in to account the time the poem was written in 1915 WWI was going on. Lots of times during war lots of literature has the ideas that we are zombies to routine and I could see how you could interpret this poem in the sense that even during war we are still in our routines. The part with all the colors I thought was silly and was part of the poem to show how normal and boring we are, because as I read it I was genuinely shocked and confused. I also thought it was interesting the colors went green, purple, green, green, yellow, yellow, blue. When it should be green, green, purple, purple, green, green, yellow, yellow, blue. But by me noticing that part of the poem which wasn’t to important it proves Steven’s point we strive for normalcy like patterns.
I looked up ceintures and I found out they were types of sashes. I thought socks with lace was normal and sashes were out of the ordinary. “People are not going to dream of baboons and periwinkles.” We are so normal we even dream normalcy. While in society sailors have often been looked at as strange outcast. The sailor is different but his dreams are interesting. The red weather part made me think of the red scare even thought that was after the poem was written. That line really made me think of how people acted in the 1950’s. There was so much fear of not being normal because of being accused of being a communist. Many people looked at the ones who stood up as strong enough to catches tigers.