Landon uses a lot of red coloured imagery throughout this poem such as; crimson, rose, heart. Red can be symbolic to the idea of danger, hurt, bloody, death, however ironically it can also symbolise love and passion. She emphasises the fact time is going by using melancholy yet she is still to find a light at the end of the tunnel, she states ‘When passions hold their interchange together, your image was the shadow of my thought;’ - which evidently shows she is unable to get him out of her
Landon uses a lot of red coloured imagery throughout this poem such as; crimson, rose, heart. Red can be symbolic to the idea of danger, hurt, bloody, death, however ironically it can also symbolise love and passion. She emphasises the fact time is going by using melancholy yet she is still to find a light at the end of the tunnel, she states ‘When passions hold their interchange together, your image was the shadow of my thought;’ - which evidently shows she is unable to get him out of her