Personification Of The Highwayman

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.Is part of this amazeing poem. The Highwayman is a good poem it has metaphors, similes,repetition, and personification. Everything in this poem was lined up and very interesting. It has a lot of details and lots of repetition. It has a good variety of words that most people wouldn’t think of using .It was wrote by Alfred Noyes . When the highwayman comes riding he hits the shutters with his whip. He whistled a tune to the window ,and who should be waiting there but the landlord's black eyed daughter .This poem is about a man and a woman in love back in the older times.

His eyes where hollows of madness,his hair like moldy hay. That is a simile in this poem. The man in this stanza is Tim the Ostler. There are lots of similes in this poem. This simile is talking …show more content…
Is repeated at the end of the poem.This is repetition with in the poem. Repetition is good for a poem . Well to me it is. Repetition is where you repeat something with in the poem . The author could’ve put more repetition in this poem to make it a little more interesting .He repeated what he wrote at the end because he started the story over again.In the poem the woman shot and killed herself and the robber or the Highwayman got shot by the red coats. So their story was told as them being ghost . That's why he used repetition.

In the three body paragraphs i told you about similes,metaphors,and repetition .The author also had personification in his poem . Personification is where like a animal talks or something like that. In the highwayman the robber fell in love with the landlord's black hair daughter.He was off to steal some gold then come back to her. But in the end they both met on the other side. He used lots of similes and metaphors .I Liked the way he used the repetition in the beginning and end of this magnificent poem.Not anybody could come up with this kind of