Annabel Lee
I. Content
The title of the poem is Annabel Lee, wrote by Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel Lee is the star of the poem, and she’s the only thing that matters to the speaker. That’s why the poem is named after her. The title introduces us to the sound of her name, which is important for the editor. Her name repeats in every line of the poem. The editor chooses this title maybe because she is the love of the author that was taken away from him.
The theme of the poem is directly stated. Love is a huge theme in the poem. The narrator and Annabel Lee fell in love when they were young in a kingdom by the sea. Their love challenged by Annabel Lee’s death, but the narrator does not give up on her. Instead, the narrator continues to dream about her, believes that their souls are intertwined, and sleeps in her tomb at night.
The setting of this poem is in a kingdom by the sea with steep cliffs and pounding waves. The ocean is black and cold and the sky that is filled with big boiling grey clouds. The poem takes place many and many year ago.
The mood of the poem is sad because the speaker talks about his love, Annabel Lee, and how she died of frostbite on a cold night.
The allusions present in the poem are “demons under the sea” – a Greek myth of Andromeda threatened by a sea monster, but rescued by Perseus and “ever dissever” and “soul”- St.Paul’s epistle to the Romans about nothing separating us from God’s love. The allusions are evocations and it is reinforce the explicit meaning in the poem.
II. Structure
The author uses different poetic techniques in this poem. Poe gets fancy on this poem. The poem fits together, and the effect that meter could have on a reader. In the first lines, he mixes what’s called an anapaest (which is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable) with what’s called an iamb (which is the meter you hear most commonly in poetry, an unstressed syllable followed by a stress.)
The poem has a rhyme scheme. The author sets up a basic pattern and
The title of the poem is Annabel Lee, wrote by Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel Lee is the star of the poem, and she’s the only thing that matters to the speaker. That’s why the poem is named after her. The title introduces us to the sound of her name, which is important for the editor. Her name repeats in every line of the poem. The editor chooses this title maybe because she is the love of the author that was taken away from him.
The theme of the poem is directly stated. Love is a huge theme in the poem. The narrator and Annabel Lee fell in love when they were young in a kingdom by the sea. Their love challenged by Annabel Lee’s death, but the narrator does not give up on her. Instead, the narrator continues to dream about her, believes that their souls are intertwined, and sleeps in her tomb at night.
The setting of this poem is in a kingdom by the sea with steep cliffs and pounding waves. The ocean is black and cold and the sky that is filled with big boiling grey clouds. The poem takes place many and many year ago.
The mood of the poem is sad because the speaker talks about his love, Annabel Lee, and how she died of frostbite on a cold night.
The allusions present in the poem are “demons under the sea” – a Greek myth of Andromeda threatened by a sea monster, but rescued by Perseus and “ever dissever” and “soul”- St.Paul’s epistle to the Romans about nothing separating us from God’s love. The allusions are evocations and it is reinforce the explicit meaning in the poem.
II. Structure
The author uses different poetic techniques in this poem. Poe gets fancy on this poem. The poem fits together, and the effect that meter could have on a reader. In the first lines, he mixes what’s called an anapaest (which is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable) with what’s called an iamb (which is the meter you hear most commonly in poetry, an unstressed syllable followed by a stress.)
The poem has a rhyme scheme. The author sets up a basic pattern and