It was so much fun for me to get to hear "The Highwayman" during our last class. My sixth grade literature class presented the poem as a dramatic reading to the rest of the school, and it was an event that will remain with me forever. The second stanza was assigned to me to read, and reading it again for this class was a trip down memory lane. However, reading it now shed new light on the actual meaning of the poem. When I read it in sixth grade, I did not understand the consequences and reasoning behind each of the actions. I did not even realize that the poem was ultimately about lovers who were parted when the woman killed herself before the highwayman reached the household. It never fails to amaze me how much I read as a child and did not understand the meaning behind each of the pieces we have read.