The Highwayman

Every author is different. Each author has a different writing style and use different literary devices to make their work interesting. They each have a different way of getting their information across. One way that authors do that is poetry. The poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is about a highwayman who is in love with a landlord’s daughter, but someone else is in love with her too. The other guy, named Tim, is jealous because he knows that the landlord’s daughter loves the highwayman instead of him. So, Tim tells the police about the highwayman and when they go and wait for him, the daughter shoots herself to warn the highwayman. Sadly, at the end, the highwayman rides to the inn anyway and is shot on the way. The poem is a masterpiece

Similes are used to compare two thing using the words like or as. The poem says “Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say-” He uses this to describe Tim and how when he overheard the two people talking he just listened in the dark. Another example is “His face burnt like a brand.” The author uses this simile to describe the face of the highwayman when the daughter let her hair fall through the window. A final example of a simile in this poem is “Her face was like a light.” It uses this to describe the face of the daughter as she waited by her window, watching for the highwayman to come back. All of these similes are used to help us better understand what we are reading. They allow us to compare the people to other things that we see everyday to help us get a better picture of what’s going on in the

Multiple times Alfred Noyes repeats the word riding, marching, and the third stanza is repeated at the end. By using repetition, the author is able to make things seem like they take a long time, like someone travels a long distance, or when whole stanzas are repeated, you know that what it says is important. The poem says “And the highwayman came riding- riding- riding- the highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.” By repeating riding three times, it makes it sound like the highwayman rides for a long time. The poem also says “A redcoat troop came marching- marching- marching- King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn door.” By repeating marching, it makes it sound like the redcoats marched a long distance or that there were a lot of them. When the third stanza is repeated, it is told as if the ghosts of the two people who died were repeating their last steps. The author was able to accomplish this by using