Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe 's different literary works are always filled with grief and sadness . Poe 's poem Annabel Lee ' is one example of a tale filled with sadness relating to a lost love . The poem begins with a narrator describing the of the poem , his lost love Annabel Lee , and how they were together in a land by the sea . It should be noted that the poem takes place well after the main subject , the death , has occurred For instance , It was many and many a year ago ' denotes that the

br narrator is thinking back on past memories in to tell the story (1 ) The poem continues to tell how the narrator and Annabel Lee first met when they were children . The narrator and Annabel Lee had a love that was more than love , which was coveted ' by angels (9 , 12 ) This tends to show that the angels in heaven were jealous of the love between the narrator and Annabel Lee . The jealousy of the angels caused a creation of a great wind that whisked away Annabel Lee and locked her into a sepulcher , which could be read as a coffin . The narrator confirms that the sepulcher is a coffin later in the poem by saying the angels killed Annabel Lee . The speaker of the poem continues to say that even though Annabel Lee is dead his love for her still remains and can never be broken . In showing his continued love for Annabel Lee , the narrator speaks of continuing to see her image in natural scenes such as the stars . The narrator ends the poem by stating that he lies by her side every night , which is represented by the sepulcher by the sea

The poem presents a classic example of lost love due to forces of God and nature . The narrator is speaking of overcoming God and nature by displaying that his love for his bride is stronger than God or nature He suggests that he continues to lie by her side every night , which would entail a continuing of sharing the marriage bed with the bride The fact that he still continues to love Annabel Lee , which is representative of his younger years , shows how young love appears to never die . The whisking away by the angels is a peculiar way to describe his young wife 's death . It appears that his wife was on a vessel or on land and was blown overboard into the water where she drowned . She has a funeral , which is the sepulcher by the sea , and the narrator continues to spend every night at her tomb . The entire ending scene demonstrates a perverse yearning for the narrator 's lost love For example , the lines : And so , all the nighttide , I lie down by the side / Of my darling , my darling , my life and my bride / In her sepulcher there by the sea -- / In her tomb by the side of the sea demonstrates how the narrator will...