Okay, a bit of an exaggeration to call it anarchist, but it has a bit of that feel to it amid the romance, tragedy and imagery. I love the poem now that I've heard Loreena McKennit bring it to life, but thinking about the portrayal of "the red coat troop"... it moves me in a way I can't really describe.
The portrayal is so ominous and almost ironic to me when it is stressed that these are " 'King' George's men"...
Any thoughts, opinions? Asterisk-ridden rants about how terrible I am at interpreting the poem?
2007-12-03 09:07:01 · 1 answers · asked by Tetra 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
The heroes of the poem are an outlaw and his girlfriend. The villains are those troops you mention, soldiers in the king's army, law-abiding, law-enforcing pillars of the establishment. (That employee at the inn who rats out the highwayman to the authorities is also a villain, but it's the soldiers who have, and use, real life-and-death power.) So I think you understand exactly what's going on.
2007-12-03 10:04:42 · answer #1 · answered by classmate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋