Annabel Lee: Deaths Undying Love
Amber Ramey
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For audio listeners, Gizem Senel reads, "Annabelle Lee" in a sullen tone, portraying the emotions of the poem.
*Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee," first appears as a beautiful love story between two young souls but quickly turns into a tragic story of the speaker's refusal to accept losing his loved one to the envious angels.
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*The speaker appears to be obsessed with the very image of Annabel, as he continuously emphasizes that his love can never be broken by the angels, despite the fact, his love passed on.
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*The poem reflects on the tragedy of a dissipated love through the narrator's recollection of his experience with loss. In the poem "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe expresses the theme, "acceptance of a lost love," by uniquely sharing the speaker's inability to accept that the love shared between the two died when Annabel Lee died.
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*. The poem carries a melancholy tone that conveys the sorrowful emotions of the narrator.
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*The poem uses a vast amount of symbolism and style to express the speakers' thoughts and feelings towards losing Annabel Lee, precisely the obsession with the love they shared.
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* This poem ends in a tragic realization that the speaker remained consumed by the loss of Annabel Lee and cannot put her in the past.
Works Cited
“Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe - Poems | Academy of American Poets.” Poets.org, Academy
of American Poets, https://poets.org/poem/annabel-lee.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation,