The highwayman in the poem is unnamed. He’s actually a robber who stopped and robbed people on the highway. The entire poem tells a story of this highway robber who fell in love with an innkeeper’s daughter known as Bess. He usually visits the lady at the inn. After his visit one...
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door. XI Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard; He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred; He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there But the landlord's...
'The Highwayman' is a rhyming ballad telling of the romance, death and ghostly return of a gallant highwayman and a landlord's beautiful daughter Bess, idealised outsiders against the state. Betrayed by Tim, a jealous stableman, Bess sacrifices herself f
She made me forget what century I lived in, that I was ashamed I was young, when she was old, and well, where she was sick, so when we opened up our books one day I read THE HIGHWAYMAN and I was he. She made me forget that he dies. I read...
The Highwayman “TheHighwayman” and Its Lessons for the Modern World It is a common perception in the world that love is very dangerous. This philosophy is one of the greatest themes in thepoem‚ “TheHighwayman” by Alfred Noyes. In thispoem‚ thehighwayman‚ a robber on the roads...
Alfred Noyes
General Writing
John of the Cross and makes the convent doorman exclaim: “They are coming, brothers. Come. Come. Come all of you. Look how they bring him. Handcuffed. Like a thief. Like a highwayman. Like a heretic. Like a blasphemer. Like a Jew. As a criminal” (Muñiz 1975, p. 88; Sastre ...