Anecdote of the jar 坛子的轶事学习.ppt

Anecote of the Jar;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).;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. ; Summary;Appreciate;The next line turns the control in an interesting way: It did not give of bird or bush. Because the jar is in the previous line, it is natural to think it in this line refers to the jar. The plot begins to thicken as it is previously suggested that the wilderness had all the control in the relationship. The jar now becomes an authority because it will not give into the natural world. To the reader, the relationship just becomes undefined. The power is turned over from nature to man.;Stevens also shows the dominant issue in the beginning of the poem. He says, It made the slovenly wilderness /Surround that hill. The authority is placed again in front of the jar. The wilderness is careless and aware of this new object placed in its environment. Then the poem states, The wilderness rose up to it / And sprawled around no longer wild. The roles are reversed once again. The wilderness is now in charge. The reversal of the roles contains the poem in an environment of utter confusion. Stevens showed the reader that this relationship really was chaotic, throughout the poem, to prove his point.;Stevens created this confusing state to allow the reader to really feel what the relationship is between the two. This relationship is hard to understand and is something that cannot be set. Using irregular rhymes and wording, Stev