Thursday, July 21, 2011

Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar

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  1. This poem makes the reader think and interpret what he is saying in any way desired. The poem for me talks about what is and what isn’t. It also talks about how something being in a scene changes the entire scene and therefore the scene is not the same scene. If you apply what he says about the jar being on a hill in Tennessee and that jar changing Tennessee itself by the fact of simply being there to real life you will realize that just by you entering or leaving a place or situation changes that place or situation completely. Take for instance the decision of sending soldiers to Iraq that completely change Iraq from a common ground to a battle ground.

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