In the poem, Anecdote of the Jar, Stevens portrays the complex relationship of human to nature through confusion of who is greater than whom, how they depend on each other, the connection between the two, and the form the poem is written in. This relationship can be felt and read through the form the poem is written in. The poem uses confusing wording to show the relationship of humans to nature. Nature's dominant overpowering weakens humans.
Humans then become powerless and vulnerable to whatever nature has become.
This line describes the jar of being plain and simple. This normalcy becomes ineffective and powerless. The ordinary doesn't have as much power as the objects that stick out from the crowd. Humans don't seem to stand out in the vastness of the wilderness. The plot begins to thicken as it was previously suggested that the wilderness had all the control in the relationship.