Question

Which of these lines from "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens best exemplifies how the jar impedes nature's ability to flourish?

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.

Answer 1

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.

Answer 2

The wilderness rose up to it, }

And sprawled around, no longer wild.

Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens is a poem that communicates, through the account of "a container" and "a slope," the dynamic overwhelming of industry over nature. In the last stanza, that overwhelming is uncovered to be a miserable and foolish prospect since Stevens' correlations clarify that he trusts nature is unmistakably more wonderful than industry will ever be.

While there are different clarifications that could be connected to this sonnet, the core of the plot is an impression of this silliness, making the three-stanzas a joined mourn of the neglecting of nature for what was misconstrued as improvement.