Analyze the meaning of this excerpt from a poem by William Stafford: “And some books ought to burn, trying for character, but just faking it. More disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing.
Desolate Towns, miles of unthought in cities, and the terrorized countryside where wild dogs own anything that moves. If a book isn’t written- no one needs to burn it. Ignorance can dance in the absence of fire.”

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The meaning of this is that burning books is not as terrible as not writing them at all. Stafford is trying to say that if you have an idea for a book and you do not write the book, or start it, but never finish, then that is worse then burning a book that's already written.

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the answer to your question is d because the clause conveys the tone of the man in the excerpt, which is arrogant and cocky. hope that .