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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. First published in 1915, it is in the public domain. [1]
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", which peppers the reader with visual images, would serve as a simple example, "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" as more complex. The Imagist poet and critic John Gould Fletcher wrote in 1923 that because of his honesty Stevens stands "head and shoulders" above the internationally famous aesthetes like Eliot , the ...
Daddy (poem) The Dark Man (poem) The Day of Doom; The Death of a Soldier; The Death of the Hired Man; Death-Song of Conan the Cimmerian; DeCSS haiku; Depression Before Spring; Desiderata; Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; The Divine Enchantment; Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972; Doctor of Geneva; Domination of Black; The Duel (poem)
Ash Wednesday (poem) At the Hub; B. Ballad of the Goodly Fere; Birches (poem) Burnt Norton; D. Desert Places; Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; Do not go gentle into ...
Poetic drowsing is liable to attack by the Indian, or by Berserk in "Peacocks", defeating imagination's task of transforming the ordinary. This sense of danger is absent in such earlier poems as "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" (1915), where the old sailor need fear no such violence as he catches tigers in red weather.
Doggett interprets the poem differently, without imputing a dream world explored by the poet. The dweller is the self, and the dark cabin is the body. The dweller's "sense of reality is obscured as though in a dream, but beside [his] cabin is the vivid actual plantain of green reality and the sun". [2] Buttel comments on the poem's title.
Pages in category "1915 poems" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; F. The Falling Leaves; G. Goblin Feet; I.
The poem's image of God as bungling potter recalls Zarathustra's dialogue with the last pope, in which God is similarly characterized. Another Harmonium poem that clearly reflects Stevens's reading of Nietzsche is " The Surprises of the Superhuman ", which was also extracted from "Lettres d'un Soldat" for inclusion in the second edition.