The answer is D
The poet describes the leaves as having a color like blood in the first stanza to add to the murderous answer forbidding tone of the poem. The poem is about a child drowning, and so the word blood foreshadows the dark events later in the poem
Answer
pretty sure it’s D
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Because the Europeans didn’t have the brain power to successfully do things on their own. They would steal from other countries and take their ideas. While other places were prospering they were lost.
