Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee

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A Love Beyond the Sea
Edgar Allen Poe’s Annabel Lee

Love: it isn’t a pretty thing. Beautiful indeed, but not pretty. It’s hard, a little bloody, it doesn’t always feel like the infatuation people tend to dress it in. Love hurts. When someone we love dies, we can all agree that it is one of the hardest things we will ever have to go through. Edgar Allen Poe, often shows us this love that he feels goes beyond death. In fact, although he seemed to be very gothic horror poet, I believe that he loved his wife Virginia with a love that went beyond death. The poem Annabel Lee is artfully full of this love so strong that even Angels are envious of it. He writes about how clouds begin “Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee” and “love with a love more than love” giving shape to this ‘love that goes beyond death’ theme by using poetic tools such as symbolism , repetition, internal rhyme and end rhyme.
Personification is used to describe the wind: the killer of his Annabel Lee. He …show more content…

But he was real. He had truly felt the glory of love and the pain of loss. He was able to paint the stories that not many people saw as socially acceptable because at the time pain was not to be acknowledged. He wrote this poem based on the loss of his beloved mother and wife Virginia. He lost both of these women to tuberculosis. Signs often appear as coughing up blood. This symptom leads to his short story Mask of the Red Death along with a few others. Because of these dark stories some were lead to believe that Poe was possessed do to his fascination of death. But I truly believe that it was really his reality. He new exactly what death was and what it looked like. Yes he hated it. And sadly it was that pain that drove him to alcohol. They found his body in the most acceptable way for man like Poe. His death will forever remain a mystery; But, his stories and poems much like Annabel Lee will live on to speak of such great love and such great

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