Question

summary of the poem dobbin by alfred noyes

Answer 1

Alfred Noyes' 'The Highwayman' enjoyed popularity for several generations due to its catchy rhythms, vivid imagery, and Romantic narrative. Filled with nostalgia for an imagined past, the poem evokes a world where love is stronger than death.

The Romantic World of Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes wrote at a time when the rules about the form and content of poetry were changing, but you wouldn't know that from reading his work. Noyes was a critic of Modernism, with its experimentation with poetic form and content. Noyes' poetry is deeply Romantic in style: themes of love and fate are prominent, and nature plays an important role. This is particularly true of 'The Highwayman,' one of his most popular works, published in 1906 in a literary magazine with a wide circulation. The vivid figurative language and strong narrative of 'The Highwayman' are typical of Noyes' style.

Lovers' Meeting

The story of 'The Highwayman' is dramatic and includes many tropes commonly found in Gothic Romanticism, a darker subgenre of Romanticism. These qualities endeared it to many readers, including Anne of Green Gables, the poem's most famous (though fictional) fangirl. On a stormy night, a highwayman (that is, a man who makes a living by robbing the wealthy on open roads) rides boldly up to an inn.

He goes there to meet his lover, Bess, the landlord's daughter. Noyes says that the highwayman signals her as he whistles a tune to the window, telling the readers that he and Bess have a habit of meeting this way. They're overheard by an inn servant, Tim, who is also in love with Bess. The highwayman tells Bess that he's going out to make a robbery, but should be back before morning. He promises her that, even if he has to go on the run, he'll return to her the next night: I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! Such foreshadowing, of course, is never good news. Tim betrays the highwayman to the kings' soldiers.

Setting a Trap

Bess waits all day in vain. At sunset, the king's soldiers come to the inn, looking for the highwayman. They harass Bess, tie her up, and place a gun braced against her chest so she can't move. Bess is in agonies of suspense. Noyes tells us that the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love's refrain. When she hears, at last, the highwayman's horse, she shoots herself to warn him of the soldiers' trap.

The highwayman's reaction tells readers that he's smart, as well as brave. On hearing the shot, he turns around, and he rides away. The next morning he hears of Bess's death, and rides back again even faster: Back he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. As Bess died for her love of him, so he dies for love of her. The final stanzas of the poem suggest that, after death, their ghosts remain together, forever meeting at the inn window.

Answer 2

The poem Dobbin is a story of an old horse ñamed Dobbin.His master brings a new young here as his replacement.Dobbin knows that his serviçes are no more wanted.
Dobbin remembers good old days when he was young.He used to tum in gardens and eat green grass.His master used to taķe çare of him and ride long distañces.But now time has
changed his master only cares for New horse.