Lenore Romney

Edgar Allan Poe is widely known for his fascination of writing about death within his poetry. In fact, he has even been quoted claiming that the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetic topic in the entire world. In his final poem, Annabel Lee, Poe writes about the death of his beautiful, young love in a kingdom by the sea. Within the poem, Poe’s use of a musical rhyming pattern, vivid imagery, and figurative language all come together to support the poem’s overall meaning. Outside factors…

beside the warm fireplace reading his book when he hears someone or something tapping on his window. When he checks, he finds a raven perched on the window sill. Throughout the story, he continually asks the raven if he will ever see his deceased wife, Lenore, again. As he asks the bird each time, it responds with “nevermore.” Perhaps the loss of his wife has driven him to a delusive state of mind. Or possibly, there was never a bird to begin with.…

speaker’s desperate desire for a relief from his pain. To no surprise, the raven quotes “nevermore”, implying the perpetuation of his grief. This refrain continues, and the speaker becomes infuriated with the implication that he will ‘nevermore’ meet Lenore or get over his grief. The seemingly endless road…

evidence that he has. He has only little hope of seeing Lenore again, ‘‘as the ambers show in the fire’’ (63). He was also so ridden by fault that he was haunted by the image of her, the raven. Also, the raven states one word, "Nevermore"(47). This gives the implication that the narrator is being chastised for something that he did. His consequence is immortality, giving him the clarification of why he would on no occasion see Lenore once more. Lenore is punishing him for what he did to her.…

Although we never see Lenore and only hear about her death, it is evident that she plays a huge part in the story. In the beginning of the story, on page 312, the narrator, who can be seen as Edgar himself, is sitting in his room at midnight—restless. He pondered, weak and weary, of his lost Lenore. While thinking about Lenore, there is a tap on his chamber door. When he is able to bring himself to open the door, there is no one there. Desperate in hoping it is Lenore, which is impractical, he…

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