the jar
“...like nothing else in tennessee.”
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the beauty and meaning
of a
personal object
understood
as
an extension
of
a person,
as a microcosm of their society.
-dm
“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 the air.
“It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.”
Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens
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