In this terrifying poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes he uses imagery, the love between Bess and the highwayman and people’s fears to create suspense all throughout the poem. Alfred uses imagery by describing what had happened to Bess, the black-eyed landlord’s daughter after the highwayman had left her “they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed”. Alfred saying this would get most people uncomfortable because when people think of someone being gagged and bound the foot of a narrow bed they know the situation is very dangerous and death could be lingering. In the poem Bess “moved her finger in the moonlight/and warned him with her death”. Bess had killed herself to warn her love, the highwayman to stay away or
