Question

I NEED HELP!

The Poem "Island In the Sun" --Harry Belafonte


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


C) 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."

Explanation:

I had a project on him.

Answer 2

Answer: D)

Explanation: The poem ''Island in the Sun'' by Harry B. is not the poem that is mentioning color like blood in the first stanza so I think that you added the wrong poem to the your question.

The question is referring to a this poem :

The old moon is tarnished

With smoke of the flood,

The dead leaves are varnished

With color like blood,

A treacherous smiler 5

With teeth white as milk,

A savage beguiler

In sheathings of silk,

The sea creeps to pillage,

She leaps on her prey; 10

A child of the village

Was murdered to-day.

She came up to meet him

In a smooth golden cloak,

She choked him and beat him 15

To death, for a joke.

Her bright locks were tangled,

She shouted for joy,

With one hand she strangled

A strong little boy. 20

Now in silence she lingers

Beside him all night

To wash her long fingers

In silvery light.

• The artist is giving us ''color like blood'' because of the tone of the poem that is forbidding and murderous because it is describing a child that has drowned. The word ''blood'' is used by the artist to foreshadow situations later in the poem because they are to harsh and dark for his style.