“Annabel Lee” “Annabel Lee”, although a hard choice between Poe’s poems, is one of my favorite poems so I’ve chosen to write my essay on it. I’m a big fan of Poe, particularly his poems, especially Annabel Lee because it is one of his most dark and daring pieces. While Poe’s other works are very dark, this one has a more intense and beautiful dark feeling than the rest. Poe starts off the poem as a whimsical fairy-tale type setting in a “kingdom by the sea.” He continues with this theme throughout stanza one by calling Annabel Lee a “maiden”, hinting that she’s a young and probably attractive girl. Towards the end of the first stanza, the speaker informs us of the love him and Annabel Lee share and how it was the only thing that really mattered.
I thought of the sea as the most important and repetitive symbol in the poem. While the kingdom is a symbol of power of humans and the cruelty of humans than the sea paired with is must be the symbol or power of nature. Poe combines the two worlds with one simple phrase “kingdom by the sea”. In line 31 Poe mentions the sea for the first time without the kingdom, making it its own powerful entity. He mentions that it is filled with demons, demons that want to separate Annabel Lee and him. Now the imagery of the sea has become dark and cruel as well, making the sea more intense; we can picture a sea of demons, not water. The new imagery of the sea is what helps turn “Annabel Lee” into a dark and scary poem. As we can see, the sea parts everything together, the tomb that Annabel Lee rests in is conveniently placed by the water too. Poe uses alliteration of the s sound in sepulchre and sea to create an evil hissing sound, building rhythm in the poem. Finally, the sea is the last word of the poem, which is critical. Just as the sea parts everything together, it rounds the whole poem out an leaves us with a very daunting image of a lonely dark sea. Again, Poe uses alliteration in the phrase “sounding sea”, going with the mood we are left with a very open sounding sea that is mysterious and deadly, the most common themes of the
Some believe that Annabel Lee was written for his wife, but others think that the love of his life, Sarah Emira Royster, that he was parted from as a youth of 18, was the true recipient for the beautiful but morbid poem. . Mr. Poe was scheduled to wed the same Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton just days before his death. “The significance of “Annabel Lee” to their relationship may, however, be reflected in the account of his desire to have it published for the first time with their wedding announcement in the local papers. Since Poe died just ten days before they would have been married, the poem was instead first printed at the end of his obituary written by Rufus Griswold in the New York Daily Tribune” (Poe Museum)
With insistent meter and captivating rhyme schemes, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven” are both very similar. However, in their views of love, namely the loss and mourning of beautiful women, they differ greatly. Through analysis of the two poems, the reader observes that whom Poe had chosen for a speaker, the tone and the sound effects are all factors in both poems that make two poems with a similar theme contrast.
Edgar Allan Poe's view on poetry is that all poems must be a "rhythmical creation of beauty". In his eyes, melancholy and sadness is beautful. He thinks that the death of a young beautiful woman is itself full of beauty. In both "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", Poe writes about this so-called beauty.
The death of Edgar Allen Poe’s young bride prompted a wealth of bitter resentment in the writer. While this is evidenced in many of his works, nowhere is his antipathy more explicit than in the poem, “Annabel Lee”.
Annnabel Lee is a poem of two lovers, in their own world, living a perfect life. This poem reflects Poe 's own pain, in which Annabel Lee dies, and her lover is heartbroken.
Annabel Lee talks about a man remembering his love (who is named in the poem, Annabel Lee) who died by an unnamed cause. The narrator of the poem speaks of her as if he truly loved her. He even tells of how the angels in the heavens became jealous of him and Annabel Lee’s
As stated before, Annabel Lee is in a deep love. The poem states, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me” (5-6).
A mutual understanding towards many of Poe’s works is that the loss of a lover brings about insanity, but the truth is that in Poe’s works the loss of a young lover leads to depression. This is a theme that is played out in more than one of Poe’s works, but it is most prevalent in the depressing poem Annabel Lee. The speaker is conflicted with losing what is his whole world and his childhood lover. While all is well with both him and the girl alive, an insurmountable depression takes hold once the winds blow out to carry her to the grave. This is a theme that plays out often in his works and has been observed as one of his main inspirations. Within Peter Coviello’s research, he comes to the conclusion that “Within [Poe’s] world, only very young girls, who are not yet encumbered by the revulsions of adult femininity, seem capable of providing a site for stable heterosexual male desire in Poe.” Rather than using a full fledged adult as his lover, he engineered a child into his poem so the lover does not harness the potential to mutate into a monstros...
"Edgar Allan Poe." Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
Edgar Allan Poe’s poems The Raven, And Annabel Lee Contrast in many different ways but i'll be highlighting three of them in this paper.The mood of these poems is sad because their true loves die in very different settings and how they handle the grief is different from one going totally insane to the other man being calm and almost a little light hearted about it.
For the most part the poem is pretty understandable, but there is a dignified and elevated form of speaking throughout the poem. Poe gives human characteristics to non human things that create a “dream” feel to the poem, which also allows the speaker to be somewhat harmonized to world around them and at the same time detached. In Poe’s first stanza the speaker acknowledges the parting of someone else and gives “hope” the physical ability to fly away. This use of personification in the poem helps capture the readers attention and senses when reading the poem. Poe also uses personification in stanza 2 while describing the setting of the beach where the speaker in standing. Poe describes how the ocean is roaring in the background while the speaker stands on the shore. He goes on further calling the waves of the ocean “pitiless” (22). The diction in Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream within a Dream” is of formal
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." Poetry Foundation. Ed. Poetry Foundation. Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.
Poems have really intricate meanings that can be portrayed in many different ways. They can be used to express feelings and emotions towards someone or something. Poems can be about love, hate, nature, or anything in particular. The poem “Annabel Lee,” by Edgar Allan Poe is a romantic poem, written during the Romanticism period. The poem is about the narrator, a young man, who is dealing with the tragic loss of his fair maiden, whom he fell in love with at a young age. The love between the couple is described as very childlike and innocent. Their love for each other is extremely passionate, for that reason, the angels became jealous and killed Annabel Lee. Although his wife passed away, the narrator does not want to give up on their love and
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem, “Annabel Lee”, explores the common themes of romance and death found in many of Poe’s works. The poem tells the story of a beautiful young maiden named Annabel Lee who resides by the sea. The maiden and the narrator of the poem are deeply in love, however the maiden falls ill and dies, leaving the narrator without his beloved Annabel Lee. Contrary to what many might expect from a poem by Poe and yet still depressing, the poem ends with the narrator accepting Annabel’s death and remains confident that they will forever be together despite her parting.
The explication was an opinion thought and also details about this poem. I found out that poems have a lot of meanings once you annotate it and break it down. “Annabel Lee” was an interesting poem that had brought out my attention. Although poems are not one of my biggest things to read or do, I enjoyed “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe.