Annabel Lee Personification

Losing someone dear to heart isn’t what one wants to go through; unlike some things, death is inevitable and no matter how good of a person one is, it is still coming. In this poem, “Annabel Lee”, Edgar Allen Poe tells a tale of losing a loved one and the emotions that come with it. Poe uses symbolism, personification, and imagery to express the emotions the narrator is feeling. There is no said reason why Poe wrote “Annabel Lee” but his words moved and touched many people. Edgar Allen Poe uses many symbols to explain what happened to the characters in the poem. Just like stanza 3,
“So that her highborn kingsmen came and bore her away from me”

Poe uses the chilling winds to symbolize the death of Annabel Lee; the winds chilling Annabel’s …show more content…
Personification is then used in the poem. Edgar Allen Poe gives the wind human like features as he accuses the wind for “chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” as if the wind was capable of such a thing. Not only is the wind being personified, but so is the moon, as the poem goes “for the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee”. The moon is not physically capable of bringing things to one or being the cause for one’s dreams.

Lastly, Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery in his poem to help one visualize the tragedy that happened to the dear Annabel Lee. The last stanza in the poem holds the most use of imagery because he is helping us see and feel what the narrator was feeling after losing Annabel Lee. Poe speaks so highly of Annabel Lee in the last stanza that one can imagine and feel the pain and sorrow the narrator is feeling. In the lines
“For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel