In the poem, “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes repetitive structure to reinforce the importance of a woman to an unnamed narrator, and specifically how it influenced him to the point of looking to an exposition for justification of his love’s mortality. Intricate usage of stylistic elements including symbolism, rhyme, and a specific point-of-view further relate the consistency within the poem’s structure to the narrator’s obsession with Annabel Lee. Poe references motifs, secondary subjects, and an exposition which create an overarching consistency throughout the poem, all symbolizing how the narrator is unable to overcome his love’s death. The repetition places focus on the motifs in his work, which all commonly associate with elements
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The frequent inclusion of these subjects reinforces how he believes the intensity of the couple’s love led to an inevitable jealousy of the immortal powers. It is unusual how the speaker negatively connotates the angels, but regardless, he does so to exemplify the darkness brought upon the couple attributed to a seemingly unbreakable relationship. Consequently, the forces of the afterlife ended up separating the two physically. The narrator indicates the tragedy when he cries, “Yes!- that was the reason… That the wind came out of the cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” In addition, the exposition itself symbolizes the infinite space forcefully placed (by the aforementioned secondary subjects) between the speaker and his love. He mentions the “kingdom by the sea” approximately seven times. Since the narrator continuously alludes to the location in every stanza, the repetitiveness indicates his rather obsessive outlook on his surroundings. The difference in height between the assumed cliff the kingdom rests on and the “sounding sea” …show more content…
The commonly referenced motifs, secondary subjects, and symbolic exposition subtly introduces romantic and gothic thematic elements such as love, heaven, and death. Similarly, the recurring flow provided by the rhyme places additional repetition through an auditory aspect. Lastly, the unknown perspective that Poe writes with helps define the allegory in which all events influence the subjects - as indicated by the abrupt changes in determiners of
The frequent inclusion of these subjects reinforces how he believes the intensity of the couple’s love led to an inevitable jealousy of the immortal powers. It is unusual how the speaker negatively connotates the angels, but regardless, he does so to exemplify the darkness brought upon the couple attributed to a seemingly unbreakable relationship. Consequently, the forces of the afterlife ended up separating the two physically. The narrator indicates the tragedy when he cries, “Yes!- that was the reason… That the wind came out of the cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” In addition, the exposition itself symbolizes the infinite space forcefully placed (by the aforementioned secondary subjects) between the speaker and his love. He mentions the “kingdom by the sea” approximately seven times. Since the narrator continuously alludes to the location in every stanza, the repetitiveness indicates his rather obsessive outlook on his surroundings. The difference in height between the assumed cliff the kingdom rests on and the “sounding sea” …show more content…
The commonly referenced motifs, secondary subjects, and symbolic exposition subtly introduces romantic and gothic thematic elements such as love, heaven, and death. Similarly, the recurring flow provided by the rhyme places additional repetition through an auditory aspect. Lastly, the unknown perspective that Poe writes with helps define the allegory in which all events influence the subjects - as indicated by the abrupt changes in determiners of