Annabel Lee” was written by Edgar Allan Poe and was published in 1849. The poem has internal rhyme and has a normal poem structure. The poem has figurative language including: imagery, assonance, repetition, and consonance. The poem also has mood and a speaker. The poem talks about a man losing the love of his life and how their love will go on forever. This poem has a speaker, mood, and figurative language helping tell the tragic love story of “Annabel Lee.”
The speaker in “Annabel Lee” is a heartbroken man. A man that loses his only love to a sickness. He is heartbroken because his love has been taken away from him. He loses the only person close to him and is all alone in the kingdom by the sea. He tells the story of Annabel Lee getting …show more content…
The second line describes how he cannot sleep without dreaming of his love. Repetition is also in the poem. One example of repetition is “In this kingdom by the sea.” This repetition is used to remind the reader how lonely the speaker is. Examples of consonance in the poem include: “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes,” and “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side.” The first example is used to talk about how he can feel Annabel Lee’s eye constantly on him even after he is gone. The second example is used to talk about how lonely he is without her and how he lays by the night-tide and by Annabel Lee’s tomb. The imagery in “Annabel Lee” is “and neither the Angels in the Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.” This imagery is used to describe how their souls will always be together no matter
The speaker in “Annabel Lee” is a heartbroken man. A man that loses his only love to a sickness. He is heartbroken because his love has been taken away from him. He loses the only person close to him and is all alone in the kingdom by the sea. He tells the story of Annabel Lee getting …show more content…
The second line describes how he cannot sleep without dreaming of his love. Repetition is also in the poem. One example of repetition is “In this kingdom by the sea.” This repetition is used to remind the reader how lonely the speaker is. Examples of consonance in the poem include: “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes,” and “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side.” The first example is used to talk about how he can feel Annabel Lee’s eye constantly on him even after he is gone. The second example is used to talk about how lonely he is without her and how he lays by the night-tide and by Annabel Lee’s tomb. The imagery in “Annabel Lee” is “and neither the Angels in the Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.” This imagery is used to describe how their souls will always be together no matter