Eleanor Farjeon’s poem “Now That You Must Shortly Go” shows an anxious tone towards the subject of separation of a loved one. As the poem begins, Farjeon uses diction to describe her feeling of anxiety. She describes: “...these bloodshot years…” (l.2) and “Have gone in vanishing armies day by day, / their numbers will not come again.” (l.3-4), which means she is worried her loved one will never come back again. As the poem continues, Farjeon uses imagery to inform the reader with her anxiety by stating: “I muse not strain the moments of our meeting” (l.5). Farjeon also provides emphasis for understanding her worried emotional state. She says: “Is this the last of all? Is this - or this?” (l.8), which means she doesn’t want to waste her time