Annabel Lee

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

While on the outside Cynthia A. Bily remains fairly objective throughout her critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee,” her diction and robotic examination of the poem show her negative feelings about the poem. She criticizes both the format and deeper meanings of the poem, degrading the format and judging the deep and undying passion the narrator feels for Annabel. She starts out by analyzing the surface of the poem without going into the deeper meaning of the poem. Merely…

when they were both children. Moreover, it can be concluded that the speaker exemplifies an obsessive love towards Annabel Lee. The obsessive nature of the speaker’s love for her is highlighted in “and so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling- my darling- my life and bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-“ (lines 38-40). The speaker’s enslaving love for Annabel Lee does not allow him to grasp the fact that she is dead and let her go. Instead, the speaker lies next to her…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s works of gothic literature, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Tell Tale Heart”, “The Raven”, and “Annabel Lee”, Poe uses suspenseful and morbid diction and syntax along with verbal irony to create an eerie mood.First of all, Poe uses repetition for effect in order to emphasize events in his story which helps to create an ominous…

Edgar Allen Poe “Annabel Lee,” this is a poem with tragedy and love made by the great Edgar Allen Poe. He has written many poems and has one of the greatest poem styles. Being born January 19, 1809, and died October 7, 1849 there is a reason why he is still beloved by many. Style, “style is the manner of doing something.” Edgar Allen Poe’s style of writing was and is very great. In the poem “Annabel Lee,” Edgar use tragedy to intensify the love and mood of the poem. In the poem the main…

simply having faith. Romanticism was embraced by Americans because its emphasis on self-reliance and idealizing the dignity of the common people. A famous Romanticist writer at the time was Edgar Allen Poe, one of his most well-known poems is “Annabel Lee.” In the poem there are several examples of Romanticism used, Poe…

Compare and Contrast Ulalume and Annabel Lee Did you know that poems usually have a hidden meaning. That meaning is usually about something that happened in the poet’s life. Sometimes the meaning is about an emotion. The poem Ulalume has both of these hidden meanings. Ulalume does a better job of expressing Poe’s feelings about the death of Virginia, because it gives more details, shows how he is coping with her death, and it shows what Poe is feeling. The poem Ulalume uses strong words and…

Edgar Allan Poe often demonstrates a type of madness in his short stories. Many times it comes from the first-person narrator. While the narrators are similar in the fact that they are both insane, they also have a lot of differences in the way that they are insane. A great way to compare the way the insanity differs in the narrators, is to compare two of Poe’s stories. Stories such as “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” do a good job showing the similarities and differences between the…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

Can you imagine writing your personal experiences to teach readers a theme or the main idea behind the story? In the book “War Dances” written by Sherman Alexie, which published in 2009, is a collection of short stories and personal poems that describe tragedies that can occur in someone’s life and how the challenges can affect their daily purpose. Many of the personal topics that Alexie mentions in his book are the Native American stereotypes, his family’s medical history, and loss of Native…