Ever wondered if you would get caught stealing? There is a poem named “The Highwayman” that talks about a guy who steals regularly. (A highwayman is someone who is on the road a lot and steals stuff.) Alfred Noyes wrote the poem about the highwayman. The poem is about the highwayman and a girl named Bess. They love each other but things did not turn out so good for them because he is a highwayman. They both end up dead. It is sad, but still a good poem. Anyway, this poem uses good poetic devices to make it interesting. The poetic devices also make it funner to read. I think it is a good poem that uses similes, metaphors, and other figures of speech to make it better.
The Highwayman uses a lot of metaphors. Metaphors compare things. Metaphors
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help the poem seem interesting. It can also help the poem get to a deeper level. What I mean by a deeper level is that the poem exceeds expectation for what they are trying to convey. Going to a deeper level makes the reader think more and have more options for their perspective. A metaphor in this poem is “His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay.” His hair was being compared to hay. His eyes were also being compared to hollows of madness. This line helps the reader have more options for their perspective because you don’t know exactly how it is like hay. Is it the texture? Is it how it looks? This also makes it interesting. The line from the poem also gets to a deeper level. It makes the reader have to think more to know what the author is trying to tell them. This poem also uses imagery. Imagery is a good poetic device because it makes the reader have a picture in their mind. When the reader has that picture, it is a lot easier to understand the story. Especially visual learners because they have to see the image in their mind to know what the author is talking about. Imagery makes the story much more interesting, too. If you know what the story looks like, then it just is more fun and interesting. The imagery in the poem is “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding- riding- riding” This is imagery because those words give you an image in your head. You could see in your mind how the sky looked and how he came riding on the path. You could also see the background clearly. Another line of imagery is “He’d a French cocked hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doeskin. They fitted with never a wrinkle.His boots were up to the thigh” So you could imagine how he looked. Without imagery, the poem would be kind of confusing and less fun. Something that this poem contains a lot is similes.
Similes are just like metaphors, but contain like or as. “Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say-”. He was compared to a dumb dog. That line is a simile. Another line is “Her face was like a light”. In that line they are comparing her face to a light. Similes do the same things as metaphors do. They let the reader have more options on their perspective, They also make the poem more interesting. And it makes the reader think more. It’s boring what you are not being challenged and similes challenge you. This all makes the story better because it’s not the same old format like other poems. You get something new and exciting when you add these poetic …show more content…
devices. Know you know the poetic devices in the poem and how they make it better.
All these devices have a way of doing something to the poem that makes it unique. And everyone likes to have unique poems because it is something that you have not heard before. “The highwayman” is a good poem that contains poetic devices that make it better. The poem is also good because of the plot, but the poetic devices make it way better. Without those poetic devices the story would be dull and boring. So next time you read a poem, read one with a lot of poetic devices because it makes it much more interesting. Then, you can compare a poem with devices and without devices to see which one is
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It shows that similes have to be compared universally so everyone can understand. This poem is a really funny read and I
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