Comparing The Raven And Annabel Lee's Ethan Frome

Love is described as an intense feeling of deep affection for a certain person or thing. At a moment it can be the most warm fulfilling emotion or can drag someone into deep despair. Lost love will led to many emotions after and can affect the individual eventually. In a story called Ethan Frome, a poem named The Raven, and Annabel Lee revolve around the idea of lost love. It is painful to see someone that deeply affected how the world span can be ripped away from the arms that once held or wanted to hold them. The first piece that describes lost love is the book entitled Ethan Frome involving a man named Ethan,his wife Zeena, and Zeena’s cousin Mattie. Ethan is joyless in his marriage with Zeena but when Mattie comes into the picture she feels him up with excitement. Zeena is a very sturdy women and Ethan follows after her like a puppy but deep down he beings to feel more for Mattie than just friendship. Ethan and Mattie know they can never be together because of Zeena; as time passes Zeena knows what is going on between them and she then decides without hesitation to …show more content…
The narrator than tells the reader how she was the fairest of them all and most radiant highborn indicate her family is wealthy and he talks about himself lesser than her. The theme of lost love comes into play when the narrator states that many were envy of what they had and his beautiful Annabel Lee was killed. According to the poem it says,”And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea,”(Poe 6). He revolves his life after her death around her he lays by her tomb and just thinks about her all the time. His forever soulmate is know gone and he has no drive to keep moving forward but to be stuck with her in her tomb by the sea since there is no other place he would rather