In my opinion, the lines that reflect the themes of barrenness and emptiness are 4. The jar was gray and bare and <span>5. It did not give of bird or bush, / </span><span>Like nothing else in Tennessee. The jar in Stevens' poem epitomizes the effect and positioning of civilization within nature. Apparently, nature (nothing, that is everything else in Tennessee) still has powers which the futile and barren civilization doesn't have.</span>
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This thought had sustained him throughout the years.
A, because hyphen is not a 1 syllable word.
Farther for physical distance and further for metaphorical or figurative distance.
