Disillusionment of Ten O Clock

How are your dreams? Do your dreams consist of haunted houses, or are they based on the things that make you happy? Many people have different types of dreams, whether they are good or bad. Wallace Stevens claims that sailors are the ones scattered throughout society who dream of these things. The author implies that dreams are crazy and they might make you see different things. I think the poet is noting how unsatisfying life …

…the physical appearance of normal dull people. He says that none of them are strange for back then, they are common in that time period. He says that people do not dream about nice things like flowers and monkeys. These people are the ones who dream of boring black and white images. He contrasts this with the sailor's shabby appearance, drunk and asleep in his boots, but also dreaming of catching, tigers in red weather.