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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Anecdote of the Jar -- Wallace Stevens

This poem is hard for me to understand, but I can picture the jar and the wilderness growing around it. It seems like the narrator placed the jar and attracted the wilderness to it. I really have no idea what it could mean.
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