Hat do the stanzas in "A Psalm of Life" have in common? They explain the different parts of a thing.
They show stages in a thought process.
They show the events of a narrative.
They display different sides of a problem.

The answer would be B.

Explanation:

In the stanzas you can tell that they start to show the stages of a thought process, for example, "Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.