Read the third stanza of Wallace Steven's "The Anecdote of the Jar" below:
[The jar] took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
Which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza?
A. The empty jar became king of the world but did not give birds refuge like most places in Tennessee.
B. The jar was overtaken by the wilderness, such as birds and bushes, which were prominent in Tenessee.
C. The power of the jar represents man-made things that threaten ton overtake our natural world.
D. The jar became powerful though it was just a jar; also, unlike most things in Tennessee, it had nothing in common with nature.
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A. The empty jar became king of the world but did not give birds refuge like most places in Tennessee.
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