1,Anecote of the Jar,by-Wallace Stevens,2,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 in 1914 in poetry magazine. Harmonium(1923) was his first collection of verse. It contains some of his best known poems. Works: Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 我叔叔的单片眼镜 The Emperor of Ice Cream 冰激凌皇帝 Sunday Morning 礼拜天早晨 Anecdote of the Jar 坛子的轶事 Peter Quince at the Clavier 大键琴上的彼得昆 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 观赏乌鸦的十三种方式,3,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,4,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 didnt give back.,5,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.,6,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.,7,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.,8,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, Stevens was able to create this unsolvable relationship. Stevens proves that his idea of the relationship between human and nature is correct. For example, this very paper is from a tree that man has cut down, showing that nature is defenseless. On the other hand, there are certainly a number of hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches, etc. happening in the world every day. Humans can do nothing to prevent these disasters from happening. Neither human nor wilderness is the dominant source.,