In the poem "Work Without Hope" Samuel Taylor talk for a narrator that see how the nature is all busy, every single organism that is part of the ecosystem has a particular job to develop and is important, however he has no hope for work so he is just an observer not a participant showing that one should look to nature as an example for human behavior, the answer is D.
I'd have to say D is the correct one.
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She uses a synonym context clue (stealthy )
She uses punctuation (little by little)
She also uses a tone clue when she describes "Nature" as something that "encroaches... with long, tenacious fingers"
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