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Working from the Text
4. In an era when the term “gentleman” indicated a member of the upper class, highwaymen were sometimes called “gentlemen of the roads.” Write a paragraph explaining how they came to be seen as more than common thieves, and how realistic this view was. Support your ideas with information from
the text.
my Notes
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the poem, look for sensory details. Mark them in the text by placing them in brackets [ ].
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
About the Author
English poet Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) wrote more than five volumes
of poetry, many of them long narrative poems or epic poems. He is best known for “The Highwayman” and Drake, which is a 200-page epic. Noyes published his first volume of poetry at age 21. His poetry was clearly influenced by Romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Tennyson. Noyes spent time in the United States as a professor of literature at Princeton University from 1914 to 1923, and he also he lived in Canada and the United States during World War II. He returned to Great Britain in 1949.
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