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The treatment of containment and movement in Keats'"Ode On a Grecian Urn" and Stevens'"Anecdote of a Jar".

Date Submitted: 04/22/2001 20:59:14
Category: / Literature / Poetry
Length: 9 pages (2589 words)
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"Ever since I've known the Japanese man who sits on the convex surface of my teapot, he has yet to make a move. He has never savoured the hand of the woman who is forever out of reach. Enervated colours, like those of an emptied , poured out sun, eternally unrealize the slopes of that hill. And the whole scene observes a moment of sorrow- a sorrow more faithful than the one that right now fills, …

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…Tennessee countryside by creating a single focal point from where we might appreciate this vastness. By depicting an object which is artificial and opposite to its surroundings we are given a screen on to which we can project our capacity to observe. This differentiating mechanism mimics the minds categorisation process and so the roundness of this jar becomes a point where we share the poet's view and participate with the jar in taking "dominion everywhere".

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