Free Essays on Annabel Lee

The poem â€Å"Annabel Lee† by Edgar Allen Poe depicts the deep anguish of a man who has lost the love of his life. Using poetic elements such as imagery and sensory perception, Poe illustrates a fairytale-like romance that is tragically cut short, perceivably by envious angels in heaven. The language and tone of the poem vividly shows the narrator’s resentment towards the cruel forces that took his love away and simultaneously exemplifies a love so strong that it transcends all things. The voice of the poem is that of a man who is struggling with feelings of bitterness and pain because of the death of his love, Annabel Lee. The story seems to be told years after the death of the young maiden, â€Å"It was many and many a year ago†, yet the tone of voice allows us to see how fresh the pain still is to the man. Because there are many references to the sea (the kingdom was by the sea and she was buried by the sea), the speaker appears to be someone who has a connection to and a love for the ocean and nature (despite the fact that it is a steady reminder, or maybe even the actual cause of her death). The reference to â€Å"the demons down under the sea†, seem to suggest this (perhaps Annabel Lee had drowned). The speaker, however, is convinced that something much more disturbing and complex has taken place: a conspiracy by the covetous and jealous angels in Heaven has taken away his love. (He fills the need to place blame somewhere.) He is angry, yet de termined, even though Annabel Lee is physically gone, to be with his love, in spirit, forever â€Å"And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee†. Although it has been many years ago since her death, everything reminds the speaker of his love, â€Å"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes of the beaut... Free Essays on Annabel Lee Free Essays on Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe in his poem, ‘Annabelle Lee’ (869) uses various techniques to reveal his theme. It is largely his interest in examining a â€Å"spiritual passion that transcends human limits† which inspired Poe to write his poem (Johnson pg. 2). He does this by the use of persona, imagery, settings, rhythm/rhyme and words. In his poem, Poe uses persona to reveal his emotions in the form of a fairy tale. â€Å"It is his personal story of lost love which achieves its unique effects through its narrative voice†(Reilly pg. 2). His experience having losing his wife, whom he marries when she was only thirteen, has affected his personal life. It seems difficult for him to erase her memories from his thoughts. â€Å"It is the character of the young man who lost his lover that is talking to us through this poem†(Kelly pg. 3). This becomes obvious when he says, â€Å"But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabelle Lee†(869). Poe sees it natural to continually mourn the loss of his loved one and does not see his action immature. To him â€Å"maturity† in the sense of being able to put a lost one out of one’s mind would be a wasteful, soul deadening thing(Kelly, pg. 2). Imagery supports the emotional qualities of Poe. With the use of this technique he is able to remember her visually. He uses elements like the moon and stars and associate them with her bright eyes. These visual imageries allows him to keep her memories alive in his life. â€Å"Poe mentions the moon and stars in which he observes the bright eyes of his dear Annabel. His love becomes not just something to feel or imagine but to see†.(Johnson pg.4) The poet mentions the moon and the star in which he observes â€Å"the bright eyes† of his dear Annabel. â€Å"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes o... Free Essays on Annabel Lee Edgar Allen Poe’s use of imagery through out the poem â€Å"Annabel Lee† is highly perceivable. His strong use of images can guide you right through this poem. This particular poem starts off with a man looking back on his life as a child, falling in love with the girl of his dreams. Right here the rhythm of the poem is set at a very even pace. Poe writes about â€Å"a kingdom by the sea,† meaning how happy the speaker is and how perfect his life is with the girl. The speaker in this poem is a man who is madly in love. One can easily picture a beautiful castle by the ocean as two children are falling in love, but if you look deeper you can see that â€Å"a kingdom by the sea† really means the state of love that the boy was in (lines 23 and 24). He also says that Annabel Lee lived with no other thought â€Å"than to love and be loved by me.† This means that he was saying that she lived for him and he lived for her. By this I mean that the two of them were placed on this earth solely for the benefit of each other. With out sharing love between the two, neither of them could exist. Clearly the age if the bride did not matter since she was extremely young. Picture two children laughing, playing and having so much fun with each other that they immediately fall in love, as children. When they married she was only about twelve or thirteen. He also said that the angels themselves were jealous of the relationship if him and Annabel Lee. He felt that the angels were not happy, because of the envy for the love that they shared for each other. He says, â€Å"the winged seraph’s of heaven coveted her and me.† A seraph is a fiery angel who protects Gods throne. In a way he was saying his love was more perfect than Gods. When Annabel Lee dies you can see her highborn kinsman or â€Å"angels†, come down and carry her away from him. Then she was placed in a sepulchre. A sepulchre is a tomb that is very similar to the shrines devoted... Free Essays on Annabel Lee The poem â€Å"Annabel Lee† by Edgar Allen Poe depicts the deep anguish of a man who has lost the love of his life. Using poetic elements such as imagery and sensory perception, Poe illustrates a fairytale-like romance that is tragically cut short, perceivably by envious angels in heaven. The language and tone of the poem vividly shows the narrator’s resentment towards the cruel forces that took his love away and simultaneously exemplifies a love so strong that it transcends all things. The voice of the poem is that of a man who is struggling with feelings of bitterness and pain because of the death of his love, Annabel Lee. The story seems to be told years after the death of the young maiden, â€Å"It was many and many a year ago†, yet the tone of voice allows us to see how fresh the pain still is to the man. Because there are many references to the sea (the kingdom was by the sea and she was buried by the sea), the speaker appears to be someone who has a connection to and a love for the ocean and nature (despite the fact that it is a steady reminder, or maybe even the actual cause of her death). The reference to â€Å"the demons down under the sea†, seem to suggest this (perhaps Annabel Lee had drowned). The speaker, however, is convinced that something much more disturbing and complex has taken place: a conspiracy by the covetous and jealous angels in Heaven has taken away his love. (He fills the need to place blame somewhere.) He is angry, yet de termined, even though Annabel Lee is physically gone, to be with his love, in spirit, forever â€Å"And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee†. Although it has been many years ago since her death, everything reminds the speaker of his love, â€Å"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes of the beaut...