Anecdote of the Jar Poem Text

Anecdote of the Jar Poem Text

ANECDOTE OF THE JAR (Excerpt)

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 air.

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- Wallace Stevens

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