Annabel Lee Figurative Language

In the poem “Annabel Lee” the poet, Edgar Allan Poe, expresses his great love for his long-lost love. Edgar expresses this in many ways throughout the poem. A couple of examples of how he does this throughout the poem is his use of theme, symbolism, sensory details, and figurative language. Throughout the poem, Poe refers to his long-lost love as Anabel Lee including in the title. The theme that Allen develops throughout the poem is a theme of great love. He develops this theme by using symbolism and sensory details. The first example of how he does this is when he states “But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Anabel Lee” (stanza 2). This quote tells about how much they love each other and how strong their love is by stating that their love was more than love. “And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee;” (stanza 3) this part of the poem tells about how his beloved Annabel Lee died due to jealousy from the “winged seraphs of Heaven.” After this Poe states that nothing can ever stop him from loving his precious Annabel Lee “And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the
One example of this is, “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,” here he states that the “moon never beams” without him dreaming about his long-lost beloved, Annabel Lee. What he means by this is that there is never a night that he goes to sleep and doesn’t have a dream about Annabel Lee. The second example is, “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.” In this example, Allan states that the stars never rise but he can see the eyes of Annabel Lee. What this statement means is that he thinks of his beloved’s eyes as stars in the