《坛子的轶事》是华莱士·史蒂文斯诗歌中最为脍炙人口的一首,向读者描述了一个不同凡响的坛子的形象。它虽灰色无釉,但和周围的一切相比,却有本质的区别。诗中的坛子虽然平凡朴素,但却是自然物中人的代表,人虽然也只是自然存在物中的一种,但却是一种有理性的感性存在物。正因为他所具有的理性,使他成为自然的立法者,运用所具有的先天的范畴为现象界的自然立法。从而体现了人类在自然面前所具有的主体性和优先性,并最终使得自然向人生成。 The anecdote of the jar is one of the most well-known in Wallace Stevens’s poetry, describing to readers the image of an extraordinary jar. Although it is gray and unglazed, it is essentially different from everything around it. Although ordinary and simple in the poem jar, but it is the representative of natural persons, although people are only one of the natural existence, but it is a rational existence of the sensual. It is precisely because of the reason that he possesses that he has become a natural legislator and that he uses the innate category it possessed as a natural law of the phenomenal world. Thus embodies the subjectivity and priority that mankind has in front of nature, and finally makes nature emerge to human beings.