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In celebration of the birthday of American poet, Wallace Stevens, we are presenting his poem Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock.
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 - August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Wallace Stevens was regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the 20th century. His first collection of verse was Harmonium (1923), at the age of forty-four. Although it was well received by some reviewers, it only sold 100 copies. Stevens largely ignored the literary world and he did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his Collected Poems (1954).
Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock
By Wallace Stevens
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.
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