Read the second stanza of wallace stevens's "the anecdote of the jar" below: the wilderness rose up to [the jar],and sprawled around, no longer wild. the jar was round upon the ground and tall and of a port in air. which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza?
a. the wilderness started to take over the jar and became tame, as the jar tried to escape the wilderness's grasp.
b. the wilderness grew up and all around the jar as the jar grew taller like a port in the air, then the wilderness became tame.
c. the wilderness represents untouched nature, and the jar represents man-made objects that threatened to overtake nature.
d. the wilderness surrounded the jar and seemed no longer wild in the presence of the tall, round jar that was like a port.

d.the wilderness surrounded the jar and seemed no longer wild in the presence of the tall, round jar that was like a port.

Explanation:

d.the wilderness surrounded the jar and seemed no longer wild in the presence of the tall, round jar that was like a port.

Explanation:

Paraphrase a content or a sentence comprises in communicating the significance of the content utilizing various words, it for the most part has the capacity to clarify the content with more clear vocabulary. The sentence that best rework the second stanza of Wallace Stevens' "The Anecdote of the Jar" is the alternative D, since it keeps up a similar thought, simply written in a less complex manner.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

answer: d

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