WHEN AM MAD

When I am mad I get full authorization to tear apart,a man who jumps like a little fawn.Obedient to dark and dark cloulds.would be my madness knows the mighty world and its darkness never returns to light.So was he,I the constantly lacked little mere child,a child who literally lived long gloomy years,lonely and isolated from seeing love's lonely songs and disappointed in loosing his bow forgoten in his maid's mind wall

The Highway Man

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy trees

The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor

And the highway man came riding-

Riding, riding

The highwayman came riding to the old inn door

An old ballad, years before we taught was a romantic tale of a young highwayman and his beloved girl Bess, who sacrificed her life amidst the terror, waited for him in the moonlight. That ballad gives an inspiration to poets to invent alliteration, metaphor, and simile to deck their poetry with different colors. In the ‘Highway man’, Noyes tells a great classic with a powerful imagery, which is redolent for the readers. The highway is absolutely his masterpiece with no doubt. It says about the highwayman’s journey to visit the old inn where Bless, the landlord’s daughter lived and the mysterious death of both the lovers. Noyes in the end of the poem evoking the souls of the hapless victims and a persistent ambience created for the readers. The ballad is musical and has a counted rhythm scheme and the rhyme scheme is so interesting. The versed poem will drag the reader to swim deeper to unbar the suspense inside. The ballad is incredible enough with elegant metaphors striking one another.