Who is 'thee' referred in the highwayman
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“The Highwayman” As a Representative of Love: The speaker details the account of a highwayman who falls in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter. The poem is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the meeting of two lovers. The speaker describes how confidently the highwayman enters the town on a wintery night. He meets Bess, and they fall in love with each other. The highwayman asks his beloved that he has to depart and that she will have to wait for him. Bess agrees, and the highwayman kisses her and leaves.
In the second part, Bess waits for the highwayman, but he doesn’t return. Meanwhile, Bess is captured and tortured by the king’s men. One day, she hears the sound of his lover’s horse. To warn him about the danger, she shoots herself in the heart and dies. Unaware of the sacrifice of his beloved, the highwayman rides back to the town, where the King’s men shoot him too. However, death could not separate the two lovers. The final epilogue suggests that their love continues after their death as their ghosts meet in every winter night.