How Does Alfred Noyes Use Dark Imagery In The Highwayman

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman is a dark and sinister narrative is a dark and sinister poem that tells of a wealthy criminal and the daughter of a landlord ,Bess, who are deeply in love ,but it turns sour when the daughter is captured. Alfred Noyes creates a dark atmosphere by using dark twists and imagery. Alfred Noyes uses visual imagery to set the stage in stanza one “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.” this quote sets up a dark and eerie image like something bad is about to happen. The author uses words like dark and ghostly galleons. Words like this setup dark imagery and even a little foreshadowing to create that dark atmosphere. …show more content…
this love turns dangerous when Tim the horse carer finds out. The Stanza uses imagery to describe both Tim and the highwayman. “He’d a french cocked hat on his forehead bunch of lace at his chin,a coat of velvet… and he rode with a jewelled twinkle, his pistol butt twinkled, his rapier hilt a twinkle, under the jewelled sky… but I shall be back with yellow gold before the moonlight.” this shows that the highwayman has a lot of wealth and money from robbing people and that he will do it no matter the risk. The passage also uses imagery of Tim when he finds out “and dark in the old inn yard a stable wicket creaked where Tim the ostler listen; his face was white and peaked his eyes were hollows of madness his hair like mouldy hay, but he loved the landlord's daughter.” this is a great part of imagery Noyes uses to create a mad image of Tim t contribute to the dark atmosphere he established earlier in the