The Highwayman
In the poem The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes tells a story about how true love never dies. Bess, the landlord's daughter, and the highwayman, a criminal, are in love with. Despite not being able to see each other for obvious reasons there love never dies proving that true love never dies.
Bess and the highwayman sneak around to see each other, late one night the Highwayman comes riding, Tim, the ostler who's also in love with bess, listens as the Highway man tells bess, “One kiss my bony sweetheart, i'm after a prize tonight, but I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light” This quote was said on page 302 of the textbook. This means that the Highwayman plans to rob a store or bank to get money, he tells bess that he will be back, I think…show more content… Before he can arrive an unexpected visitors come to the inn, the soldiers. They make there way through the inn and up to Besses room, they then tie her to the foot of the bed facing her so she can see out the window they then position a musket under her breast and tie her hands behind her back, they then leave. Hours pass and she can hear the clitter clatter of the Highwayman's horses “She would not risk their hearing, she would not strive again; for the road lay bare in the moonlight.” This quote is said on page 303 of the textbook. This means that Bess had to warn the Highwayman that there was danger at the inn, to do so she shot herself.
Later in the poem the Highwayman hears that the Bess has shot herself and rides to the inn to find out the full story. He doesn't quite make it all the way to the inn fore the soldiers suspected that he would be back. They shot him on the road, him and Bess are both now dead. Even though they are both dead legend has it that on a foggy night you can still hear the Highwayman come riding up to the old inn. On a foggy night you can hear the highwayman whisper a tune to bess. This shows that true love never
