What Is The Power Of Love In The Highwayman
In the poems The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, the short story, Echo and Narcissus by Roger Lancelyn Green, and the painting Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday, the central ideas and theme is mainly the power of love and its consequences. The poem The Highwayman best exemplifies the theme of love, for Bess and her love had sacrificed their own lives for each other.
In the poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, he expresses love as powerful and long-lasting. The two main characters, Bess, the landlord’s daughter, and the highwayman, have a strong love that can never pull them apart, even after death. Tim, the ostler, secretly loves Bess and encounters the highwayman secretly visiting Bess. He overhears the …show more content…
Dante, one of the characters in the painting, is shown as he is deeply in love with Beatrice. Beatrice holds a rose or a flower close to her heart, which can indicate that she is secretly in love with Dante and is protecting her fragile heart. Dante holds his hand close to his own heart, which is almost the same figure and action like Beatrice. This can mean that Dante and Beatrice both have each other’s heart, or the opposite. Beatrice stares straight ahead, as if she does not know Dante as well. The story behind the painting is strange. When Beatrice was 8 and Dante was 7, Dante was immediately taken with her. He still loved her even when she got married to another man. According to an autobiography, La Vita Nuova by Dante himself, Dante and Beatrice had only met twice in their entire lives, but Dante’s love for her never faltered. His love for Beatrice went on for at least 9 years, this was the time when Dante and Beatrice met again. They met on a street in Florence, where Beatrice was wearing white, accompanied by 2 older women. She turned and greeted him, which filled him with an abundance of joy. He retreated back to his room, where he thought about her. Thus, creating the painting Dante and Beatrice. Dante’s powerful love for Beatrice never stopped, no matter how long it took for them to meet again, even when Beatrice
In the poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, he expresses love as powerful and long-lasting. The two main characters, Bess, the landlord’s daughter, and the highwayman, have a strong love that can never pull them apart, even after death. Tim, the ostler, secretly loves Bess and encounters the highwayman secretly visiting Bess. He overhears the …show more content…
Dante, one of the characters in the painting, is shown as he is deeply in love with Beatrice. Beatrice holds a rose or a flower close to her heart, which can indicate that she is secretly in love with Dante and is protecting her fragile heart. Dante holds his hand close to his own heart, which is almost the same figure and action like Beatrice. This can mean that Dante and Beatrice both have each other’s heart, or the opposite. Beatrice stares straight ahead, as if she does not know Dante as well. The story behind the painting is strange. When Beatrice was 8 and Dante was 7, Dante was immediately taken with her. He still loved her even when she got married to another man. According to an autobiography, La Vita Nuova by Dante himself, Dante and Beatrice had only met twice in their entire lives, but Dante’s love for her never faltered. His love for Beatrice went on for at least 9 years, this was the time when Dante and Beatrice met again. They met on a street in Florence, where Beatrice was wearing white, accompanied by 2 older women. She turned and greeted him, which filled him with an abundance of joy. He retreated back to his room, where he thought about her. Thus, creating the painting Dante and Beatrice. Dante’s powerful love for Beatrice never stopped, no matter how long it took for them to meet again, even when Beatrice