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Sorrow for the Lost Annabel Lee



With insistent meter and captivating rhyme schemes, Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" are both very similar. However, in their views of love, namely the loss and mourning of beautiful women, they differ greatly. Through analysis of the two poems, the reader observes that whom Poe had chosen for a speaker, the tone and the sound effects are all factors in both poems that make two poems with a similar theme contrast.



Both poems mean the same thing and follow the same theme or "melancholy topic" as Poe called it in his essay. They both depict a speaker who is severely depressed over the death of a beautiful woman. Poe gave a sense of madness in their character, though, which made them obsess and think constantly about their lost love. They could also both be interpreted as obsessed speakers with intense and undying love. Yet, the two poems differ in their meaning. "Annabel Lee" is much more......

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