Analysis Of ' Annabel Lee ' By Edgar Allen Poe

Poe’s philosophy is depicted in “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”; a man of dark and depressing poems who was influenced during his hard, emotional, life to write. His poems describe the mental and emotion devastations a person’s state of mind can reach. Despite his hard life and mysterious death he faced, the speaker can recognize his struggles through his life to become successful with his literary works.

The narrator in “Annabel Lee” is going through the stages of grief that makes him unreliable on what his emotion on what's going on. The narrator states “Nor the demons down under the sea can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee”(31). Here the narrator is showing grief by saying that Annabel will always be his love, and that not even death can keep them apart. This just proves he is in the sad state that he will never forget her and they will always be together. Later the narrator states, “That the wind came out of the cloud by night/chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”(25-26). Here is where the narrator shows that he is in the angered stage of dealing with the death of Annabel. THis quote show that the narrator is unreliable because he is dealing with grief in many different ways. This is another way Poe used unreliable narrators in his

Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee", was about a death of a women who was well loved by her boyfriend. He's still morns her death for years and still thinks sweetly of her. However Tiger Army rewrote Poe's poem into a punk song and was published in 2001. The band kept the depressive mood the narrator felt, they seek refuge by the ocean to rekindle the memories; also the band changed some of the heart broken tone into a negative mood, they had a different rhyme scheme.

The poem “The Raven” was published in 1845, after his mother had died and around the time his wife was dying. The poem “Annabel Lee” was published in 1849, after Poe’s wife had already passed on. It believed that “The Raven” is about Poe’s late mother ( or late foster mom ) or Poe’s dying wife. It is also believed that “Annabel Lee” is about Poe’s late wife Virginia. In “Annabel Lee” in lines 38/39 the speaker says “And so all the night-tide I lie down by the side of my darling - my darling - my life and bride”, which leads readers to believe that Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” is about his deceased wife virginia. In “The Raven” in lines 93/96 it says “Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore”, in these lines the speaker id asking him he will be reunited with a departed loved one. This leads me to think that Poe wrote this poem for either his mother or his wife. The themes of these poems tie together with the reasons they were written. The theme of “Annabel Lee” is love and loss, this is because the speaker is talking about how he has lost his beloved wife. In line 9 of “Annabel Lee” it says “But we loved with a love that was more than love” and in lines 25/26 it says “The the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”, in these lines the speaker is talking about how he loved Annabel Lee and that she had been struck with a chill and it killed her. “The Raven” has two themes. The themes of “The Raven” are love and loss as well as sanity versus madness. In “The Raven” the speaker has lost a loved one by the name of Lenore, this contributes to the love and loss theme. Also in “The Raven” the speaker repeatedly asks a raven questions and the raven

Edgar Allan Poe has a way with the pen that immediately alerts the reader that he or she is reading his work. Upon initial study of “Annabel Lee,” the reader will judge it a typical Poe because it laments the death of a young woman, a theme pervasive not only throughout Poe’s work but also throughout his life. However, this poem reads less as a tribute to a real woman and more as a representation of a martyr dying for a holy love. Poe uses religious allusion to frame his subject in this manner. Poe also uses alliteration, internal rhyme, and repetition in order to further contribute to the effects established through his religious allusions.

Poetic Qualities as Signs of Loss in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem, "Annabel Lee," is a very deep and emotional poem,clearly trying to convey a lot of universal emotion to his reader. During his lifetime, Poe had lost his young wife, his mother, and his stepmother, so in other words, many of the women that Poe had so loved in his life had died, and this was something that had deeply troubled Poe, leading him to an eventual state of depression. In the poem "Annabel Lee," many of these feelings of love and loss that Poe felt towards his wife and other women is all transmitted to the reader.Through the use of various forms of poetic qualities, tone, and imagery, Poe speaks about a universal theme of love and loss, inspired by his own experiences with the women he loved.Throughout the poem Annabel Lee, Poe seems to be utilizing a very dark, menacing,even vengeful sort of tone, and he does this through various means. One of the way he does this is by his word choice. He uses harsh words and phrases like "killing (line 26)," "shut her up,”(line 19) and "dissever my soul" (line 32) to accomplish this. Even though Poe is speaking about his love, he is nevertheless speaking in a very menacing sort of way. The hurt that he feels from her loss has impacted him deeply, he is all consumed by the darkness of her untimely death, as the reader also learns that she was young when she was taken away. This loss has driven the speaker to the point of anger and

He was not always convinced that simplicity was a desirable aesthetic and did not believe that you could find elegance in it. He still liked reading simple writings and appreciated all styles from the viewpoint of a writer. The death of Poe’s wife put resentment in Poe’s heart. In “Annabel Lee,” he writes of a love so deep that even “the angels not half as happy in heaven went envying her and me.” (Pollin 288) The only way he knew how to ease his pain was to put it into words. Annabel Lee became the expression of his very soul. Poe wrote that everything in the natural world reminded him of his beloved wife. The final stanza shows the true feelings of Edgar Allen Poe. He pours his entire soul into this single stanza.

“Annabel Lee,” is a poem composed by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s tragic love story begins in a kingdom by the sea. It describes a powerful love that was stopped too soon. The death of a beautiful woman, Annabel Lee, has left her lover mourning her death. Edgar Allan Poe uses archetypes to create a tone of anguish.

In life, as in death, Edgar Allan Poe evoked a feeling of sympathy from his

Akin to the barrenness that Poe was obviously feeling at the time he wrote this poem, most detail is stripped away except for the most basic imagery of the sea, the shore and the heavens.

Furthermore, Poe shows that he longs for the reader to be with Annabel, because she was adored and loved by all. This diction gives the poem a romantic feel, which is outside of its gloomy morbid tone, showing his true love for his deceased. This shows that Poe wants the reader to feel a different side of the poem, most of the tone of the poem is dark and extremely morbid, but by saying this he adds a bit of relief to the readers, showing them that it’s not all bad. The most dramatic illustration of this poem is when Poe uses the lines in the poem that suggest imagery such as “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee” “and the starts never rise, but I feel the bright eyes” This imagery shows the reader what Annabel Lee was like, it glamorizes her showing the reader that she was an incredibly amazing and beautiful person. The diction in Annabel Lee cannot be any more applauding; by doing this he sets the tone for the whole poem, which makes the poem so wonderful in the first place.

A great poem shocks us into another order of perception. It points beyond language to something still more essential. It ushers us into an experience so moving and true that we feel at ease. In bad or indifferent poetry, words are all there is. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” is a great poem, not because it is popular or it is classic, but because of its underlining message. “Annabel Lee” is a poem of death, love, and beauty. It captures the narrator’s interpretation of these three ideas through his feelings and thoughts for one woman. The narrator, Edgar Allan Poe, becomes infatuated at a young age with the character in the poem, Annabel Lee. Even after she passes away, his love for her only increases and only becomes

Who is “Annabel Lee”? Even though the poem is all about her, we never get a true introduction. Other than she was beautiful and youthful, we have no idea what she looks like. She is so beautiful, in fact, that angels want to destroy her. Poe uses the technique of imagery to let the reader visualize what their version of the perfect woman is. “Annabel” is a symbol of fantasy. Poe uses vivid imagery to define her without actually giving her a face. The protagonist imagines his love everywhere and every time he closes his eyes he sees her face and the image of her “bright eyes”. It is with this sensual imagery that the reader understands how deep his love is. So deep that even when the angels kill her, he can’t bear to be separated from her. Poe proves that the narrator isn’t going to let a little thing like death keep them apart.

Death is greatly symbolized in this story, as well as the aftermath of it. The narrator constantly goes on about how much he loves Annabel, and how much Annabel loves him. He verbalizes that they “loved with a love that was more than love” (Poe 27). The speaker is saying their love is more than just normal love, but a love that is divine, righteous and apart from the regular love felt by typical lovers. All good things must come to an end as we know, and a wind comes by, “chilling and killing [his] Annabel Lee” (Poe 27). The speaker is clearly devastated, but it also seems as if the speaker has an obsession with how and why Annabel died. The idea of love and death seem to be linked together. Rather than facing the truth, and accepting Annabel’s death, he services her tomb as a symbol of her death instead of the facing reality of the situation. The speaker seems set on the idea that the angels of the heavens are responsible for her death and “went envying her and me” (Poe 27). He believes that the angels are so jealous of their love that they killed her. Annabel is portrayed in the story as a symbol of perfection and flawlessness. The speaker seems to be taking the concept of love a bit to literally. Annabel’s death could even serve as a death Poe has dealt with in his life, and the story represents the love and pain he felt. All in all, death is a huge concept in this story

Another poem that shows the unfortunate heart break that Poe may have experienced, is Annabel Lee. Initially, the first stanza is jolly and almost makes the writer envious of the love the two characters’ share. It shows their love for each other and how everything in their relationship was idealistic. It reads, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. She was a child and