D. You worked on your essay yesterday so that you could go to the game today.
The best way according to him is to make a good fence. The poem's final lines says that good fences make good neighbors. That can mean that if you stick your nose in your yard you will have good neighbors. Of course, this is all figuratively and refers to much greater things in life.
In simple terms, scrubbing the stain only made it worse. Exacerbating means to make something worse than what it already is.
