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    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"
    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"
    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"
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    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"

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    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535837293
    A Study Guide for Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"

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      The Highwayman

      Alfred Noyes

      1907

      Introduction

      According to his own report, Alfred Noyes wrote The Highwayman over a two-day period in 1904 when he was 24 years old. (The poem was published in 1907 in the collection Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems.) The Highwayman is a romantic ballad, which means that it is a narrative poem that celebrates passion and adventure. Set in the England of King George III, the poem tells the story of a highwayman, or robber, who has fallen in love with Bess, an innkeeper’s beautiful daughter. The lovers are betrayed by a jealous stablehand, and soldiers attempt to trap the highwayman by taking Bess hostage. In an oddly sadistic scene, the soldiers tie Bess up with a gun pointing into her chest, and then wait in ambush for the highwayman. When Bess hears the highwayman approaching, she warns him by shooting herself; he hears the gunshot and escapes. The soldiers pursue him, however, and he, too, is killed. The poem is notable for the way in which it reverses our expectations concerning light and dark imagery. Ordinarily, we think of the clarity of daylight in positive terms. In The Highwayman, however, Noyes associates the daylight with the destructive powers of mankind, and he identifies the nighttime with the mysterious forces of

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