After
reading this poem we can say that It concerns the relationship between man and
nature, man being represented by the jar. It speaks of the dependencies they
each have on one another as well as their confusion in understanding, which is
greater. And as I think Wallace Stevens
reflects the themes of barrenness and
emptiness of modern life in these
lines from "The Anecdote Jar":
It did not
give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
