Noyes, A. (1988). The Highwayman. NY,NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 01524343407
Author: Alfred Noyes
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Illustrator: Neil Waldman
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Media Used: Watercolors
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year of Publication: 1990
ISBN: 0152343407
Annotation: The highwayman loves Bess and promises to return at night. The lovers are betrayed, the militia use Bess as bait to catch her lover but she kills herself to warn her lover. The soldiers kill him but their legend lives.
Personal Reaction: This poem has all the right elements of romance, danger, betrayal and love lost.
Illustration: The artist evokes all the right moods- love, danger, betrayal, fear, tension and even death with striking watercolors. His full page picture of Bess finding the trigger on the gun gives the reader the feel of the poem because her finger is barely touching the trigger when first discovering it.
Use of Media: The artist uses light pastel colors with black as a contrast to depict mood and scene.
Use of literary device: Rhyme is used throughout the poem like with day-way-say and tonight- light. Onomatopoeia is used with the sound of the horse hooves- tlot-tlot-tlot. Simile was used in “road was a gypsy’s ribbon” and metaphor was used with “his hair like moldy hay”. Repetition is used in “Look for me by moonlight, watch for me by moonlight and I’ll come to you by moonlight”. Rhythm is established through the repetition of words and placing the illustrations on one page and text on the opposite page.
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