Imagery In Annabel Lee

The poem "Annabel Lee", by Edgar Allan Poe, shows the speaker's way of coping with the death of his beloved, which is displayed as obsession towards her and his judgment of the holy as guilty. The speaker justifies his obsessed love to Annabel Lee as stronger than any extraordinary force, and presents the holy as disgraced and malice for trying to separate them. First, the repetition of words, phrases and sounds emphasizes the speaker's obsession towards Annabel Lee. Her name is mentioned seven times, and the first time she is mentioned her whole name is capitalized as if she is the only one existing. Furthermore when he refers to her he uses the word "My" as if she is his possession, and in line 39 he cries out for her and tries to be connected with her in every way. …show more content…
The speaker mentions the image of the "kingdom by the sea" which implies the upcoming death. This kingdom is placed near the sea where the sun sets, and the sunset symbolizes the end of something and death. Moreover, the kingdom belongs to the powerful, so if they were in a different place it would not have occurred. In the eleventh line the "winged seraphs of heaven", that are supposed to represent something holly, are reaped apart by the enjambment like they "coveted"(12) and reap apart Annabel Lee and the speaker. In the third stanza the speaker uses a dismissive tone accompanied by the "H" consonant and says "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven"(21), and even capitalize "Heaven" to emphasize how wrong they are for "envying"(22), because they have the great heaven why do they interfere in his love life. The "D" consonant in line 31 emphasizes the anger the speaker feels and how determined he is to stay with his beloved. The image of the wind that "came out of the cloud"(25) can be seen as the wind pushes Annabel Lee away from the speaker and makes distance between