Annabel Lee
Edgar Allen Poe wrote Annabel Lee while his own mourning for the loss of his wife was at the forefront of his mind. The poem expresses how the narrators love and feelings for Annabel are eternal and pure. The narrator incorporates his tone and imagery to help the reader understand that love is a natural thing, and the bond he shares with his wife is everlasting.
Poe expresses this poem as musical “sing-song” rhyme scheme and use of repetition. Poe portrays both the narrator and Annabel as young and pure; they possess an air of innocence, untainted by whim and wiles of adults: “She was a child and I was a child/but we loved with a love that was more than love” (lines 7, 9). This is paired with how the narrator sets the setting: …show more content…
It’s like he’s fighting with the angles to possess her. “With a Love that the winged seraphs of Heaven/Coveted her and me (11, 12). The narrator continues to tell us about the setting and how while beautiful, there is something haunting and jarring about waves crashing on the shore and the idea that such a beautiful place can also be one of misery and ultimate sadness to the narrator: “the sepulcher of the sea.” The cold wind—sends chills up one’s spine… and kills Annabel. From here on there is an immediate change of tone in the poem and the narrator is noticeably depressed. No opposition can break their love; even in death her image is clear to him. “But our love it was stronger by far than the love/ Of those who were older than we--/ Of many far wiser than we—.” His love for her becomes an obsession when she dies—he deifies her to the point of sleeping next to her tomb in the dark of …show more content…
The narrator keeps trying to hold onto his deceased Annabel, he keeps struggling and can’t accept the fact that she is gone. His denial and depression about the fact that she is gone really darkens his own love for her. If his love for her was truly everlasting and great, shouldn’t he be happy for her? His own depression over the fact that their love really couldn’t be everlasting really shines through his words. The cold truth is that his obsession over the fact that she’s gone is showing him how love is truly not eternal. Sure he can sit by here “tomb” all night and think of happy memories, but that doesn’t mean she can come give him a hug or show him a sign of affection. The narrator doesn’t quite reach the same level of happiness he did in the beginning at the poem as he does at the end while describing his night in his wife’s sepulcher. The narrator expresses this accepting and resolute tone about her death in the last stanza of the
Edgar Allen Poe wrote Annabel Lee while his own mourning for the loss of his wife was at the forefront of his mind. The poem expresses how the narrators love and feelings for Annabel are eternal and pure. The narrator incorporates his tone and imagery to help the reader understand that love is a natural thing, and the bond he shares with his wife is everlasting.
Poe expresses this poem as musical “sing-song” rhyme scheme and use of repetition. Poe portrays both the narrator and Annabel as young and pure; they possess an air of innocence, untainted by whim and wiles of adults: “She was a child and I was a child/but we loved with a love that was more than love” (lines 7, 9). This is paired with how the narrator sets the setting: …show more content…
It’s like he’s fighting with the angles to possess her. “With a Love that the winged seraphs of Heaven/Coveted her and me (11, 12). The narrator continues to tell us about the setting and how while beautiful, there is something haunting and jarring about waves crashing on the shore and the idea that such a beautiful place can also be one of misery and ultimate sadness to the narrator: “the sepulcher of the sea.” The cold wind—sends chills up one’s spine… and kills Annabel. From here on there is an immediate change of tone in the poem and the narrator is noticeably depressed. No opposition can break their love; even in death her image is clear to him. “But our love it was stronger by far than the love/ Of those who were older than we--/ Of many far wiser than we—.” His love for her becomes an obsession when she dies—he deifies her to the point of sleeping next to her tomb in the dark of …show more content…
The narrator keeps trying to hold onto his deceased Annabel, he keeps struggling and can’t accept the fact that she is gone. His denial and depression about the fact that she is gone really darkens his own love for her. If his love for her was truly everlasting and great, shouldn’t he be happy for her? His own depression over the fact that their love really couldn’t be everlasting really shines through his words. The cold truth is that his obsession over the fact that she’s gone is showing him how love is truly not eternal. Sure he can sit by here “tomb” all night and think of happy memories, but that doesn’t mean she can come give him a hug or show him a sign of affection. The narrator doesn’t quite reach the same level of happiness he did in the beginning at the poem as he does at the end while describing his night in his wife’s sepulcher. The narrator expresses this accepting and resolute tone about her death in the last stanza of the