In “The Highway Man” by Alfred Noyes, the speaker uses imagery to show that sometimes，imagery can create the atmosphere to make it easier for readers to get into the emotion. There are lots of use of imagery in this poem, for example, “There was death at every window, And hell at one dark window” the window is an imagery which symbolizes hope. After Bess had been bounded by the soldiers, she hopes someone can help her and the highwayman can notice and won’t come back, so that the soldiers won’t catch him. The window there is a symbol of hope and it is also a tool for Bess to know that is highwayman comeback or not. In the line 23 Part 2 of the poem, the speaker notices that” Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, Cold, on the stroke of midnight”, the midnight as an imagery, set off a cold and sad atmosphere after Bess killed herself by gun to protect the highwayman.The midnight there symbolizes to the dark and cold condition, which create by speaker makes readers feel sad about the love between highwayman and Bess. It also shows the unselfish of the love. After the highwayman goes back and finds out Bess died, highwayman is really mad, “With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!”. The white road smoking is an imagery, which shows the highwayman is really mad and he is hurrying to revenge. So the hurry makes the horse run very fast and full of smoking from the ground. Of all, the imagery is act as a navigation in this poem to build the atmosphere to let readers can get into the poem and the emotion deeply or easily.
Work Cited:
Noyes, Alfred. "The Highwayman." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.
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