Read the stanza from "Night." O night, you take the petals of the roses in your hand, but leave the stark core of the rose to perish on the branch . What does the word “stark” mean in this stanza?

The stanza contrasts the rose’s petals, which night takes, with its “stark core” left on the branch. Here, “stark” means bare or stripped of its covering, like a core without petals. So “bare” is the correct choice.

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