What would have happened if John Stone had chosen a different adjective such as serious? It would not have the same depth of meaning.
The meaning would stay exactly the same.
It wouldn’t imply how all-encompassing their seriousness can be.
The poem would not have fit the theme of the art as well.

Read the first stanza of wallace stevens's 'the anecdote of the jar' below: i placed a jar in tennessee, and round it was, upon a hill. it made the slovenly wilderness surround that hill. which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza? o a. when i placed a jar outside in tennessee, it seemed to dominate all of nature. o b. the round jar i put on a hill looked strange amidst the wildness of nature o c. i put a round jar on a hill in tennessee, and the jar made the wilderness surround it. o d. i placed a jar on a round, wilderness-covered hill in tennessee.