Rest in Peace, Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

The poem, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, has a dark and eerie tone. This poem is so sullen and creepy because the narrator’s wife, Annabel Lee, was killed by the heinous, chilling winds that were dispatched by the angels. Her husband, who became a widower, wrote the poem beside Annabel Lee, who was dead in her tomb. This has a very dark and glum toon, which causes the reader to jump into a somber mood. The text states in a dreadful and shocking tone “that the wind came out of the cloud by night/chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (Poe 25-26). The poem “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings, is a very powerful poem about love. It is mainly about a man who knows that his life is complete because he has his love by his side. Cummings uses passionate and warm hearted words to make the reader incorporate and feel an emotional mood towards the poem. In a spiritual and loving tone it states that “i want, no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)” (Cummings 6-7). Each one of the poems are unique in their own way, but both have completely divergent feelings and tones to them. “Annabel Lee” has a dark, gloomy, and cold tone that makes the reader feel a sense of loneliness. Poe sets a sorrowful and mournful

In “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allen Poe writes about his love for his deceased wife. He uses this poem to remanence about the strong love and memories they shared together. Then, Edgar Allen Poe begins to paint a picture of her death, and how nature took her away from him. Lastly, He explains that even though she is gone, her memory and love will always linger with him.

“Annabel Lee” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man’s painful memory of his long-dead love, Annabel Lee. The narrator explains that he an Annabel had a love so intense it made the angels in heaven envious. Out of jealously the angels sent a cold wind that eventually killed Annabel. However, even death could not separate them because their souls are entwined with one another’s. He continues to tell the reader that he still loves her all these years later. In fact he loves her so much he sleeps next to her in her tomb every night. The speaker is simply a grieving husband who misses his wife dearly or is he? Maybe he is not even Annabel’s husband. Perhaps he is a fanatical stalker with a serious obsession that lingers even after Annabel’s death.

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.

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

Emily Dickinson lost her father on June 16, 1874 (Sewall 69). The sudden loss of her father stunned her and she wrote in a letter that she was “wondering where he is. Without any body, I keep thinking. What kind can that be” (Letter, 471). When Dickinson’s mother passed away in November of 1882, Dickinson also wrote in a letter about her “wonder at her fate” and she was “seeking what it means” (Letter, 815). The “wonder” in both letters shows that Emily Dickinson is a person who looks inward for the mystery of death. Many of her poems convey her preoccupation with death, concern with immortality and doubts about fulfillment beyond the grave. I will analyze “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” (591) and “Because I could not stop for Death” (479), both of which deal with the death and eternity. These two poems reflect the conflicting attitudes of Emily Dickinson towards afterlife.

A wild and untameable force of nature, the sea can represent a multitude of abstract ideas, most, if not all, can be applied to “Annabel Lee.” Seas or oceans are often signs of death because of their ferocious qualities and humankind’s inability to fight against an ocean-borne disaster. This interpretation of the sea being a harbinger of death fits when looking at the later stanzas of the poem, when they “shut her up in a sepulchre / … by the sea,” or when the speaker lays down in death to join her in “her tomb by the sounding sea,” (19-20, 41). That interpretation doesn’t fit, on the other hand, in the earlier stanzas when the speaker reminisces about the childhood he spent with Annabel. Rather, the interpretation of timelessness and eternity fits much better with the depictions of youth.

What a tragedy and relieve it is that Death can lure and heist away the hearts of our love ones and eradicate the individuals we despise. Differences in love and hate is what separates one’s consuming devotion and/or fueled distaste towards others. Whether we come to love someone or grow to loathe them exceptionally, Death will inevitably seduce them away into the fading night—of that is certain—often leaving individuals mourning or with a sense of release. Life and Death have been in love since the formation of the stars and galaxies, perpetually exchanging beautiful creatures as a sign of affection. Death can either work in one’s favor or work against it. There’s never quite an in between for humanity. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, one can behold the contradistinctions and similarities between the collapse of Anabelle Lee and the old man through the incorporation of unifying themes, symbols, and other literary elements.

Emotions are tricky to manage. No matter the self-control one could have, emotions can always squeeze their way to the top and cloud judgment. This is no different for the man named Edgar Allen Poe, but he was able to use words as a way to express and deal with those everlasting emotions and feelings. Annabel Lee best expresses Poe’s feelings about the death of his wife because it gives a clearer meaning as to how he was conveying his devastation; Poe writes about the “childlike” love he had experienced, to the “angels and demons” and finally, about his love’s “tomb” by the sea to, unlike Ulalume: A Ballad, describes their love, to where she died and finally, how Poe dealt with the loss of losing his wife.

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee,” was written in 1849, two years after the death of his wife, Virginia Clemm. The narrator starts off by confessing to the readers that he has been love with a woman named Annabel Lee ever since they were young. The love was supposedly so strong that the angels were so jealous that they separated them apart, which led the readers see the transition of the mood. Poe starts off the poem by talking about how the narrator and Annabel Lee met, which sounds like a fairy tale by Poe using “it was many and many a year ago” and “in a kingdom by the sea.” He quickly darkened the poem with gothic elements, like inexplicable events.

Poetry Analysis Everyone has their ways to express love, some of us fall too hard too quickly and others don´t love enough. In ¨Annabel Lee” written by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator falls in love with Annabel when they are young. Annabel dies, but the narrator believes that their souls are intertwined. ¨Morning Song” written by Sylvia Plath, is the narrator describing her child’s birth. Once she has the child however, she doesn’t love it all.

There is nothing in this world more satisfying than finding your life’s partner or your ultimate true love, but having to lose someone so special to you is indescribably the worst feeling ever. In Edgar Allan Poe's poem “Annabel Lee”, the author describes himself as a “child” who falls in love with a young woman named Annabel Lee. Living “In a kingdom by the sea” (Poe Line 2), he and Annabel Lee seem to be extremely happy and their love is quite intense. In fact, because of how strong their love is for each other, Annabel Lee is murdered by “the winged seraphs of Heaven” (Line 11) who have sent a wind that chills Annabel Lee to her death. Devastated, the author refuses to give up on their love, believing that their souls are intertwined and in order to show his unconditional love for her, he dreams of her and sleeps next to her in her tomb every night. To maintain his claim that physical death holds no dominion over love Poe uses theme, imagery/repetition, and symbolism throughout the poem.

The power of love can overcome any obstacle that may get in the way. Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee” explores the idea of idealism of love from Poe’s perspective viewpoint. The poem tells of two lovers whom have been together since childhood. The way they felt towards each other was so strong that even the angels were jealous. They killed the young maiden out of envy of not being able to possess the feelings that of which the lovers have. However, the love of the two young ones was unbreakable. By using idealism, foreshadowing, rhyme, and repetition Edgar Allan Poe produces a commentary on everlasting love.

The beginning of this poem sets a mood that is romantic and loving but changes to melancholy caused by the death of his true love. The persona is reminiscent, depressed, and mournful of the tragic incident that took his young love away from him. Personification is also found in this poem in lines 25 and 26 where it says, “That the wind came out of the cloud chilling And killing my Annabel Lee.” The human’s characterization of killing is given to the wind, which is, in fact, an object. There are a couple of hyperboles found in this poem; an example of one would be, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.” The speaker seems to be exaggerating by stating that Annabel only thought about loving him. It is

Ever since high school I have loved reading poems from Edgar Allan Poe. I love his oddness he adds to his poems. He is such a different writer when it comes to poetry and I love it. As soon as I read the assignment, I knew I had to pick one of his great poems. The poem I chose is “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. From what I have read from the poem, I have interpreted it as a love story gone extremely wrong.