The New Poem Packet!

This week I'm doing "Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock." I thought it was appropriate with it being Halloween :-) "The houses are haunted by white night-gowns." So the author starts off the poem with a picture of someone in the generic white sheet dressed up as a ghost. Then he goes on to say there aren't any colored ones no lace no rings of any colors. I believe the author is relating these plain white sheets to people's lives that seem to do the same thing over and over and over. There's no vibrant color's to their lives nothing exciting. The author wants our sheets to be colorful and lively. Then he has a weird line about people not dreaming of baboons and periwinkles. Well periwinkle I know is a color and a plant so I think he might be saying that generic people don't enjoy the contrast and wonder of those two unfamiliar things. But the sailor who dreams about catching tigers in red weather. He is a sailor a man that has been around the world and back and he has seen adventure and can now dream of catching red tigers in red weather because he has the imagination for it. He has lived for those moments unlike those of us that do the same thing every day we are white sheets.