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"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1919, so it is in the public domain. This famous, much-anthologized poem succinctly a...
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If we are willing to consider "Anecdote of a Jar" as a readymade, then Roy Harvey Pearce may well have discovered the particular mass-produced object Stevens had in mind when he wrote the poem [see photo of "Dominion" canning jar].
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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness ; Surround that hill. ... The "Dominion Wide Mouth" Jar said to be (by Roy Harvey Pearce) the "source" for the "Anecdote of the Jar."
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In the poem, Anecdote of the Jar, Stevens portrays the complex relationship of human to nature through confusion of who is greater than whom, how they depend on each other, the connection between the two, and the form the poem is written in.
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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air.
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Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens ... Anecdote of the Jar (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition) ... Home > Anecdote of the Jar Summary & Study Guide > Anecdote of the Jar...
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This poem originally appeared in the October 1919 issue of Poetry. THIS ISSUE IS SOLD OUT ... The jar was round upon the ground ... The jar was gray and bare.
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Anecdote of the Jar - by Wallace Stevens .. I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. ... 10/29/2009 12:25:41 AM. #.3# You Are Here: Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens ;
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In Reply to: Re: Anecdote of the Jar posted by Myron Snorkevitchanov on March 09, 19100 at 23:21:01: ... This fruit jar was in use in Tennessee in 1919 when Stevens traveled there prior to writing "Anecdote of a Jar." This is of particular interest because in line 9 Stevens employs the term “dominion”,
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In Wallace Stevens’ poem, Anecdote of the Jar, the complex relationship between art, represented by the jar, and imagination, symbolized through the wilderness, is portrayed. In this poem he discusses a correlation between the two and how one eventually damages the other. ... This is a short summary of this paper! ;
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