Where can i find tone in the poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes?

Question

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Answer 1

Tone

The poem communicates an attitude about imagination and reality. The choice of certain words and certain details makes it clear that the speaker prefers imagination but is aware of reality.

This is an example of how to answer this question. Refer to the poem you are reading and you say: This is a mans story during war. He is on the run and has love for a brave woman. Loss...It is clear what his fate is.

Lovely poem. Dark and Wet, dripping with ghostly images and the sound of war.

Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming! She stood up, straight and still!

He turned; he spurred to the West; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there

Answer 2

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman is not a Romantic poem (it does not belong to the Romantic Movement in poetry), nor a romantic poem (it is not particularly a love poem). Noyes as an author belongs to the Edwardian period in English literature. Edwardian culture in general is typified by Art Nouveau architecture and design:- it is colourful, ornamental, unchallenging, deeply middle-class, and overwhelmingly bogus. Highwaymen were long gone by the time the poem was written - and the heroic highwayman versus the wicked revenue officers makes no more sense than brave Taleban fighting evil US Marines (this will also turn up on Afghan TV one day). Nor is the Highwayman a love-poem. The 'landlord's red-lipped daughter' is only in the poem so that she can die sentimentally. The poem appeals to people who are terrified of real feelings - this is why teachers admire it so much. If you want to read some actual Romantic poetry (poems which belong to the English Romantic Movement); you should try some Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley or Byron. If you want real love poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Donne's Songs and Sonets can hardly be beaten (though you could also look at Byron's She Walks in Beauty; Poe's Annabel Lee, and Thomas Moore's Believe Me if all those Endearing Young Charms). If you are only looking for poetry like Alfred Noyes' - you should consider Sir Lewis Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (particularly the Wreck of the Hesperus), and William Stafford among more modern writers.

Answer 3

Read it aloud and listen to how it forces you to speak = tone