The Highwayman By Alfred Noyes

Whoa! I thought I would never like poems. The highwayman sure did change my thoughts about poems. It has so much emotion to it. You can almost feel getting shot like he did. Or when Bess shot herself, while she was trying to “twist her hands behind her and wiggle out of the knots.” They when her finger found the trigger it was like you could feel it happening. There was so much drama in this poem. Some stuff you couldn't even imagine why the people would do what they did to push Bess to kill herself, or why the horse man would tell Bess’s father that she was talking to the highwayman. The wonderful person who wrote this poem is Alfred Noyes. He did a very good job and he will leave you with a great mystery. I, myself think that this poem masterpiece …show more content…
Here are some examples, His eyes were hollows of madness and his hair like moldy hay.Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say.His face burnt like a brand. Down like a dog on a highway. What he meant is in the first one, his eyes weren’t really hollows, of madness he was just really mad. Then it says his hair was moldy as clay, his hair was not hard and moldy like clay it was all gross and seemed to look as if it hadn't been washed in days. He wasn’t really saying that the horse man was dumb as a dog when he was listening he was phrasing that the horse man knew better and shouldn't of listened to the conversation but he did anyways. His face was not literally burned like a brand, his face was really red because it could've been windy and he got wind burned by riding his horse and the wind hitting his …show more content…
Honestly it makes the poem sound scary, so its pretty cool that he put that on there. Another one he says” The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.” Now so you really think the moon was tossed up in a big ship and was up above the seas. No that couldn't happen, ever! You use these phrases to exaggerate something and make it sound more interesting like, I caught a fish that was 100 feet big when really it was only 20 inches. Also put in there, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor. It means he could follow the road just like you would moonlight and he would do it over the open land. Alfred Noyes also puts in there,”His eyes were hollows of madness.” His eyes weren’t hollows of madness he was really mad and you could see it in his eyes. Like I said to exaggerate, he put that in there to make it sound more