It proves the narrators insanity when he begins to blame the wind for Annabel’s death (Poe 495: 25-26). But it doesn’t stop with just nature getting the blame, the narrator blames Annabel’s relatives for taking her away: “So that her highborn kinsmen came / And bore her away from me” (Poe 495: 17-18). Even the heaven are blamed by the narrator for Killing Annabel Lee when he calls them jealous of his love by saying “The angles, not half so happy in Heaven, / Went envying her and me / Yes! that was the reason” (Poe 495: 21-23). This is evidence enough that the theme is of
It proves the narrators insanity when he begins to blame the wind for Annabel’s death (Poe 495: 25-26). But it doesn’t stop with just nature getting the blame, the narrator blames Annabel’s relatives for taking her away: “So that her highborn kinsmen came / And bore her away from me” (Poe 495: 17-18). Even the heaven are blamed by the narrator for Killing Annabel Lee when he calls them jealous of his love by saying “The angles, not half so happy in Heaven, / Went envying her and me / Yes! that was the reason” (Poe 495: 21-23). This is evidence enough that the theme is of