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,

Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams [ER] ... Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning, Six Significant Landscapes, Nuances of a Theme by Williams, Anecdote of the Jar, The Snow Man, Tea at the

To ignore the interpretation that lies behind the jar's interpretation and initiates it is to be surprised by what has appeared to many readers a sudden and arbitrary shift in point of view.

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

Write an analytic interpretation of some aspect of Hamlet, ... Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," "Anecdote of the Jar"; Williams, "This is Just to Say"; Bedford, "Modern Period," "modernism"

--Online essay offering ONE interpretation of the poem ... 3. E-text of "Anecdote of the Jar"

This interpretation of the fairy folk's origin undoubtedly shows a later Christian influence, perhaps in which the islands' older pagan ... The following anecdote neatly illustrates the point.

Are there problems with either interpretation? What difference does the issue here make to the meaning of the poem? Lecture 12

One problem in interpretation (already encountered in our discussion of ambiguity), is the problem of recognizing the limits of interpretation. How does Davidson legitimate his reading of Eliot...

In "Anecdote of the Jar," Wallace Stevens is very concerned with the difficulty versus promise of creative procedure.