In Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman,” the poem expresses a deep, passionate love between a dashing robber and a landlord’s daughter that ends in a warning by sacrifice. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” it explores an eternal love between the narrator and his wife after he loses her. The authors both developed the theme of love. In the first poem, Noyes developed love through sacrifice and not even death could dissever their love for each other: “I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way”(30). The highwayman did not realize that a man named Tim was listening in on their conversation and posed a threat to Bess’s lover. Tim had felt as though he loved her,but it was unrequited love because she did not love him back. He then
