The disillusionment of ten o'clock, what time of the night! “Houses are haunted by white nightgowns.” Everything is the same from one house to another. Not only does Wallace Stevens allude to the disillusionment of ten o'clock, but he also brings out feelings of loneliness and despair through his selective use of neutral diction. Stevens emphasizes neutral diction using parallelism and repetition, similarity of syntax, and an ironic change in phrasing. Nevertheless, the emotion of the poem is only provoked by Stevens's specific use of neutral diction. “None are green, nor purple with green rings, nor green with yellow rings, nor yellow with blue rings.” A common theme runs through this poem, which is linked by the author's use of parallelism and repetition. Stevens chose to give the poem a coherent structure throughout. In each line cited above, he repeated the colors and used the same phrases over and over again. In doing so, the author was able to make his point. He made the reader understand that nothing exciting happened....