Diction In Annabel Lee

Poetry has long been an art form that has entertained readers for many years. Edgar Allen Poe, a poet from the 1900’s, is known for his deep dark poems. He wrote many poems that are now considered classics. One of his greatest works, “The Raven”, was written in 1845; just two years before his wife Virginia Clemm died of Tuberculosis. The entirety of “The Raven” is confined in a man 's chamber. It is a December winter and it is midnight. The narrator, the person who resides in the chamber, is reading a book: glooming over the recent death of his wife Lenore when he hears a sound at his door. After finding no one there, he hears a whisper that says “Lenore.” He returns to what he was doing, but a bird flies in. The bird is a black raven, a bird one would typically find menacing. He is inquisitive and begins to ask the bird questions : “What is your name” to which the bird responds “Nevermore.” Near the end of his questioning he asks, “Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?” This questioned if he ever get to meet Lenore again and the bird replies “Nevermore.” Finally, the man asks the bird if he will ever leave and once again the bird replies “Nevermore.” Throughout the poem, Poe uses literary elements to produce an aura of wackiness and despair.

As a child, Poe would watch his mother perform on stage every night. He would be sitting front row watching the beautiful actress commit suicide every night due to her role as Juliet from Shakespeare's famous play. After the curtains closed, Poe’s mother would take young Edgar and go on with her evening (Edgar Allan Poe). Now, as an impressionable young child, Poe would see his mother die on stage and then see her “come back to life”. This led to Poe’s fascination with death. In “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”, death is the main component. In “The Raven”, Poe talks about a man who was going mad while trying to forget his love who had just died. The fact that this woman is dead contributes to Poe’s theme of death. Now, this is not the only piece of literature that has to do with a man’s love dying, in the poem “Annabel Lee” Poe

“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.

Poe uses imagery and diction to portray the narrator’s state of mind. Poe’s descriptive language demonstrates the narrator’s sorrowful life without Lenore, and Poe’s choice of words reveal his fear towards the sinister raven. For the sorrowful and fearful narrator, the whole world seems to be bleak and terrifying. Everything, even darkness, reminds him of his lost love,

“The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” are both poems that handle grief very differently as they lose their loved ones. Although “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” have many similarities both narrators talks about how differently they handle grief. In “Annabel Lee” the narrator stated, " of my darling, my darling, my life and bride, In her sepulcher there by the sea- In Her tomb by the side of the sea". In the quote, the narrator lies down with her in her tomb. Since he loves her so much he lies down with her in her tomb. In the poem “The Raven” the narrator stated, “Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”The narrator wants the raven to leave, but it continues to sit there. Also, the narrator’s wife dies a raven flies into his room for the raven is a symbol of his wife's memory. His wife's memory haunts him and he wants to get his mind off of her.In “Annabel Lee” when Annabel dies the narrator lies down with her in her tomb. Since he loves her so

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a lot about the human mind and how it can be both good and evil. “The Raven” can be used as an example of the evil behind the human mind because the main character is unable to cope with the loss of his loved one and the fate of her soul. “Annabel Lee” is an example of how the human mind is not always evil because the main character is hopeful that he will see his love in the afterlife. In the poems each protagonist is struggling to cope. The main character in “The Raven” struggles to cope and slips into depression: “And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted ­­– nevermore!” (107-108). This quote states that the main character’s soul will never rise from the floor,  which means that he would never be happy again. The narrator’s mood depends heavily on his loved one. The main character in “Annabel Lee” also has trouble living without the love of his life. The narrator speaks as if his life has lost all meaning and value with the death of his lover: “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee…” (34-37). The speaker is constantly thinking of his lost love and everything, even the stars, have become dull since she left.  Both main characters struggle with coming to terms with their loss,

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.

Poe uses complexity to construct different types of intensity all the way through the poem. “ Not the least obeisance made her: not an instant stopped or/ stayed he:/ But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above-/ my chamber door,” (Poe 712). In this part of the poem the reader learns what creature was making the sound that the narrator heard. This new revealing piece of information causes for a change in the suspense and intensity of The Raven. “ ‘Prophet!’ said I, ‘thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!-/ Whether Tempter sent or tempest tossed thee here/ ashore,” (Poe 713). The narrator is angry with the Raven and believes that it wa sent by God as an evil prophet. This is all untrue and just shows how agitated the narrator is. This adds to the fluctuating intensity located in The

From short stories to poems, Edgar Allan Poe is most known for his daunting yet elegant stories. Initiating modern detective stories with, "The Murder in the Rue Morgue,"(1842) Poe goes on to write "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven"(1845) which are read and picked apart by all ages in school. "The Raven," is a short story following a man filled with sorrow, surrounded by depressing events allowing his mind to control the universe around. This tale tortures the man and any reader actually practicing complete readers comprehension. "Annabel Lee," is a love poem by Mr. Poe that rhymes line for line giving us a taste of the romance between the narrator and this Annabel

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

Poe takes a quite different approach in expressing the same theme, the loss of a loved one, in Annabel Lee. While the tone is dark and somber in The Raven, the tone in Annabel Lee is loving at first, then as it

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.

An exceptional poem can move the reader to a new consciousness. It becomes more than words pieced together to make a rhyme, and evokes true emotion that is palpable. One of the most influential authors that contributed to this experience was Edgar Allan Poe. His work is almost immediately recognizable due to his common motif that is both melancholy and mysterious. Much of his writing concerns love and loss, such as in his poem “Annabel Lee.” The essence of this work is endless love and the death of a beautiful young girl. It is thought by many that most of his literature mirrors his actual life, which was riddled with heartbreak and sorrow. It is evident from the mood and setting of his writing that he dealt with a lot of

A Dream Within A Dream, Annabel Lee, The Raven, and The City In The Sea are well known examples of Poe’s mastery of classic literature. Edgar Allan Poe was “one of the most well-published” poets and very critical of Transcendentalism in the 19th century. Poe did not approve of the work of the Transcendentalists and was a Prolific writer himself. The established poet was inspired by his life and each of his poems included a life experience embedded within. Edgar Allan Poe wrote A Dream Within A Dream and Annabel Lee after his wife, Virginia, had died in 1847 as tributes to her and to describe his loss and loneliness. Edgar Allan Poe’s life influenced his poem’s because the tones reflected the emotions he was feeling and the themes reflected the lessons he was learning.

The gothic nature of “The Raven” gives the poem a much darker and negative tone, compared to “Annabel Lee,” which expresses the sorrow the narrator feels after his loss. Poe uses words in “The Raven” that makes the narrator appear weak, helpless, and desperate to know if he will see his wife, Lenore, again in the afterlife. In the early stanzas of the poem, the narrator hears a tapping at his bedroom door; he then reveals who he believes is trying to come into his room when he states, “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” \ This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!” - \ Merely this and nothing more” (Poe, 28-30). This quote is an example of how Poe sets the tone of the poem when the speaker whispers into the darkness, calling for his wife who he knows is deceased. This reveals to the audience that the man is not yet at peace with the reality that his wife is no longer with him. On the other hand, in “Annabel Lee,” Poe sets a more hopeful tone by exhibiting how the narrator feels about his deceased wife. Near the conclusion of the poem, the narrator