Team names

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/4/2013 11:59 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>When I taught that poem to freshmen about 1980, somebody asked in all
>seriousness, "Is it a Mason jar?"
>
>At the time, I was Yankee enough to ask why it should be, specifically, a
>Mason jar.

A Mason-Dixon jar?

Joel


>"Because that's what they put moonshine in."
>A new layer of meaning. Prove the kid wrong.
>
>In another class, somebody thought Bryant's "To a Waterfowl" was just the
>old-time way of spelling "To a Waterfall" (pronounced with /oul/). The way
>he turned ornithological into hydrous imagery was surreal.
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>JL
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>On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > Check out Wallace Stevens' poem, "Anecdote of the Jar."
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> > > In reference to the Baltimore Ravens--named for Poe's poem--Dennis
> > > Baron posted these possible "literary" names on his Facebook page:
> > > "St. Louis Prufrocks? The Camden Leaves? Patterson Wheelbarrows?
> > > Tennessee Jars? The Amherst Slants of Light?"
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> > Can someone explain the Tennessee reference?  I don't get it . . .
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