Stevens'+poems

Anecdote of the Jar

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

Wallace Stevens

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, Or yellow with blue rings. None of them are strange, With socks of lace And beaded ceintures. People are not going To dream of baboons and periwinkles. Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches Tigers In red weather.

Wallace Stevens

The Emperor Of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal. Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face. If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb. Let the lamp affix its beam. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Wallace Stevens

Anecdote of the Jar

Imagery of poem: “ I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill.

It made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill.”

Personification of poem: “The wilderness rose up to it,”

Personification of song: “and the wind, cried, Mary”

Jimi Hendrix- wind called Mary

Asyndeton of poem: “ It did not give of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee.”

Disillusionment of Ten O’clock

Imagery of poem: “ None are green,

Or purple with green rings,

Or green with yellow rings,

Or yellow with blue rings.”

Asyndeton of poem: “ Only, here and there, an old sailor,

Drunk and asleep in his boots,”

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Personification of poem: “ Let the lamp affix its beam.”

Simile: comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Personification: giving inanimate objects human characteristics.

Imagery: when words are descriptive to help make the reading come to life.

Asyndeton: the omisson or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence