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What doe the jar in wallace stevens’s ‘the anecdote of the jar’ symbolize

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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

The jar in Wallace Stevens's "The Anecdote of the Jar" most likely symbolizes human order and the drive to arrange things according to a pattern. It is there to say that nature cannot be controlled by humans - no matter how hard the narrator tries, he cannot fit the whole of Tennessee into the jar, the same way a man cannot dominate over nature.... Show More

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