Anecdoteofthejar坛子的轶事（参考）.pptVIP

Anecote of the Jar by----Wallace Stevens Anecote of the Jar 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. It took dominon everywhere. The jar was gary and bare. It did not give bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. 坛子的轶事 我把一只坛子放在田纳西 它圆圆的，矗立在山顶 原本凌乱的荒野 因它而向小山环聚 荒野向它涌来 并向四周蔓延，不再狂野 圆圆的坛子在地面上格外突出 高的像空中的海港 它统治着所有地方 虽然它光秃秃、灰溜溜 它不孳生鸟雀或树丛 但它与田纳西的任何一样东西就是不同 Summary The poem written by Wallace Stevens is mainly y about the relationship between nature and art. The poet thinks that the nature is a desultory world and only ideas can make it united as a whole. This is about the white man coming to Tennessee and sticking out like a jar on a hill, but having dominion over the wild natives, plants and creatures, and taming them. Like the jar, the white man put himself above nature, and didn’t give back. Appreciate The poem uses confusing wording to show the relationship between human beings and nature. For example, line 9 says, It took dominion everywhere. It refers to nature, meaning the power that nature has over that of the jar (humans). Natures dominant power weakens humans. Human beings then become powerless and vulnerable to whatever nature has become. Another line proves this dominant state, The jar was gray and bare. This line describes the jar of being plain and simple. This normalcy becomes ineffective and powerless. The ordinary doesnt have as much power as the objects that stick out from the crowd. Human beings dont seem to stand out in the vastness of the wilderness. * Wallace Stevens（华莱士·史蒂文斯） An American Modernist poet. Stevens was born in Reading(雷丁). He eucated at Harvard and then New York Law School. Stevens spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut(康涅狄格). Stevens first published work Harmonium appeared