Modernist poetry explored the problems that arose from rapid urbanization and industrialization in the late 1800s and early 1900s. which two lines in this excerpt from "anecdote of the jar" by wallace stevens reflect the themes of barrenness and emptiness in modern life? 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.