If we are willing to consider "Anecdote of a Jar" as a readymade, then Roy Harvey Pearce may well have discovered the particular mass-produced object Stevens had in mind when he wrote the poem

The "Dominion Wide Mouth" Jar said to be (by Roy Harvey Pearce) the "source" for the "Anecdote of the Jar."

Anecdote of the Jar - by Wallace Stevens .. I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. ... The jar was round upon the ground;

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness; Surround that hill. ... It took dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird

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Anecdote of the Jar ... The jar was round upon the ground ... The jar was gray and bare.

Wallace Stevens; Anecdote of the Jar; ... The jar was round upon the ground. And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush,

Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of a Jar" ... Why is the title called "an anecdote"? What is the significance of the speaker, who placed the jar in Tennessee? And why in Tennessee?

In the poem, Anecdote of the Jar, Stevens portrays the complex relationship of human to nature through confusion of who is greater than whom, how they depend on each other,

"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1919, so it is in the public domain. This famous, much-anthologized poem succinctly accommodates a remarkable number of different and plausible interpretations...