Poetic Devices In The Highwayman

Aubri Cook

The Highwayman poetic devices

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Thursday

Poetic Devices

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“The Highwayman” is a fabulous poem, it’s daring, it’s creative, and most importantly its intelligent. The author, Alfred Noyes, uses poetic devices. It’s creative. Alfred came up with this, with hardly any experience. It is a phenomenal ballad. He used almost everything, Metaphors. Such like, ‘The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor’. He also uses Similes, some like ‘His hair like moldy hay’. Or Onomatopoeias, saying ‘tlot-tlot-tlot’, even personification. He says ‘And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked’. And there’s even more than all of that.

He must’ve put a lot of work into this poem. I thank him for that. If you want the

There’s only about one of these. But it repeats. It says it multiple times, but never gets old. You could read it over and over again, and never know it was the same author. The best part is, when you read it, and then you read it again. You don’t think, Pfft, twice in the same poem, rookie mistake. No, it’s different. It’s like magic, POOF!!!!

Personification, dog’s bark, they don’t speak. Personification is where you ‘give’ an inanimate object, human qualities. This is a very common poetic device. It’s used in a bunch of stuff, such as, TV shows, Movies, Poems, Novels, and even Comics. Like in “The Highwayman”, when it says, ‘Her musket shattered the moonlight,’ Now do you understand how all this works? Ahhh!!! Why is the dog speaking??!?!??! *Sorry, but we are having some technical difficulties*

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Wow, that was woof. Okay, now that that’s settled, let’s continue. This one is my favourite of them all. Imagery, where you get so into it you can imagine it all in your mind. In “The Highwayman”, it says, ‘Bess, the landlord 's daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black

Wow, that’s a lot of poetic devices. Isn’t it awesome. And it’s all proof, that this poem is fantastic. Very real, but also very fictional. Perfect almost. It’s kinda’ cool, how all this works. Just think about it. If you find the perfect book, poem, or anything like that, I bet it’ll have all of these poetic devices in it, and even more. I used a lot in this already, but there’s still a ton more. Like Alliteration, repetition, and figurative language. And some stories have all of them. Most people will probably think ‘Oh, well I don’t need any of theses in life, so I don’t care,’ But you should, it’s something that’s good to know. And could also use a little bragging points too. I hope you understand poetic devices better now, and have a better perspective on them. *Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring* Ohh, maybe it’s the producers, bye