How Does Noyes Create Suspense In The Highway Man
In the poem “The Highway Man,” Noyes creates suspense by including the color red on the landlord’s daughter lips foreshadowing a bloody ending “The landlord’s red-lipped daughter” (Stanza 4 Line 5). Noyes also includes suspense by stating that the Highway Man would arrive by the moonlight “Watch for me by the moonlight” (Stanza 5 Line 5).The author also created suspense when the landlord’s daughter committed suicide with her musket “Then her finger moved in the moonlight, her musket shattered the moonlight, Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him-with her death”(Stanza 13 Line 4,5,6).The author creates suspense by including the death of The Highway Man “When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway, and