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.
