2007-03-22 10:03:01 · 6 answers · asked by Speed Limit 25 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
the theme for the poem the highwayman is sacrifice someone's life for their love one(s). bess, the landlord's daughter, kills herself in attempt to warn her lover, the highwayman.
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2007-03-22 10:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by oh 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes
2016-12-14 10:41:33 · answer #2 · answered by hinokawa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What's the theme in the Highwayman?
2015-08-13 02:11:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes: A poem about a tragic heroine who died for love?
the first stanza of which is: The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
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This book is actually a famous poem by the prolific poet Alfred Noyes. This particular poem is about the love between an American soldier and his bride-to-be in the Revolutionary era of the 1770's. It is a graphic and sad tale of the sacrifices that people will make for true love. The central theme of the story is the British soldiers taking hostage the love of the "Highwayman." The soldiers use her as bait to draw him out so that he could be murdered. Instead of submitting herself to this mission, though, she gives up her life by shooting herself with a gun, just in time to warn her love of the danger that he was being drawn to. The rest of the story deals with the decision between protecting the life that his love sacrificed for and honoring the life of the lover that he has lost.
2007-03-22 10:20:08 · answer #4 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the theme for the poem the highwayman is sacrifice someone's life for their love one(s). bess, the landlord's daughter, kills herself in attempt to warn her lover, the highwayman.
2013-10-21 07:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by lomuscio 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies. Look in the subject index under "Crime and Criminals." You may find some ideas.
2016-03-19 07:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the theme is death
2014-12-18 15:48:01 · answer #7 · answered by Jawad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋