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In Wallace Stevens' poem, Anecdote of the Jar, the complex relationship between art, represented by the jar, and imagination, symbolized through the wilderness, is portrayed. In this poem he discusses a correlation between the two and how one eventually damages the other. Stevens sets up an antagonistic relationship between the jar and the wilderness. The jar seems to be slowly threatening the wilderness which is in a state of disorder from which it cannot save itself. Wilderness represents the imaginative ideas of the artist who is attempting to bring order out of this chaos and place it in the jar. Several aspects of creative style are used to reinforce the idea of the negative effect embodied in the jar upon the art of truth and imagination personified by the wilderness. Stevens' presents a poem with metrical variation and little rhyme scheme or pattern, illustrating that by varying from the norm he can more effectively express his inspired thoughts. After analyzing the poem rhythmically, I discovered that this poem was written in the form of iambic structure. At first, some lines did not appear to be iambic but after reading through the poem many times, I came to the conclusion that this is the way Stevens intended it
In the poem Anecdote of a Jar, by Wallace Stevens, we see how the poet uses confusion to portray the connection between the human world and the natural world. The jar that the reader is introduced with is a symbolic representation of man, being that jars are a man made object...