Question

Why does the poet describe the leaves as having a "color like blood" in the first stanza?

A)
to make the reader contemplate his or her own guilt
B)
to implicate the boy in his own murder in this poem
to add an element of comedy to an otherwise drab poem
D)
to add to the murderous and forbidding tone of the poem

Answer 1

The answer is D) to add to the murderous and forbidding tone of the poem

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