My english comp teacher in college wants us to find out what poem this line comes from, I am having trouble "the jar in the Tennessee, a fictitious center" if you know please contact me, or if you have any idea how i can go about searching, thank you:)

-- angela suroviec (psycho260@hotmail.com), February 06, 2000

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all in one line ? sounds weird ... I fail to find the "fictitous center" - anyway, this is as close as I get : . Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens

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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.

It took dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), February 07, 2000.