Use Of Repetition In Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

The beautiful Annabel Lee has been brought back to life with Edgar Allan Poe’s depressive, yet marvelous poem, “Annabel Lee”. In this poem, the speaker is mourning his fiancé, whom passed away. Edgar Allan Poe uses repetition through the poem to convey the sense of how much he loved, and how Annabel Lee was. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, he emphasizes the theme of eternal love. To show this, he uses repetition; he also uses repetition to emphasize where Annabel Lee lived by. The poet wrote the poem years after the speaker’s fiancé’s passing. He is saying these words to Annabel Lee and the audience, after a while of her passing. The poet repeats, “In this kingdom by the sea” (Poe 8). This quote is used throughout the majority of the poem, almost in every stanza. Significant words in this quote would be the words kingdom and sea. This is because the speaker tries to convey an image of where it is that Annabel Lee lived by, and where she currently rests/where her tomb is at. This impacts the reader with the tone of the speakers love towards Annabel Lee, and that he wishes he were with her again. In conclusion, this quote is used to …show more content…
In it, the speaker is talking about Annabel Lee to the audience after she died. The quote says “Of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (Poe 17). The most obvious key term in this quote is “beautiful”. The fact that he repeats it so much would mean he could not ever stop thinking throughout the poem, of how beautiful she used to be. At one part of the poem, the poet talks about him and Annabel Lee instead of just saying “the beautiful”. Combining those two together would show that Annabel Lee was his, and that nothing would separate them, or corrupt their love for each other. This quote also brings the depressing or mourning tone that the speaker has towards her when he mentions how beautiful she was every