<em>The two lines in the excerpt above from “</em><em>The Anecdote Jar</em><em>” by Wallace Stevens that reflect the </em><em>themes of barrenness and emptiness of modern life</em><em> is “It did not give of bird or bush.</em>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Like nothing else in Tennessee. This poem raises many questions for the modern life to be empty and bare which arose from rapid urbanization and industrialization in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The feeling and the miserable modern life is explained through the voice of jar.
