Annabell Lee
ANNABEL LEE
Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" is a romantic poem written back in 1849. It is one of Poe's more famous or well known works. It tells a story of love between a young man and a young woman. (We later find out that the "young man" is not as young as he would like us to believe, shame on you Mr. Poe.) As the poem goes on, the lovely Annabel Lee succumbs to the black hand of death. The cause of her death is not known, but The speaker has his theory as to why she was taken from him. He believed that the angels in the heavens were jealous of the love the two shared. The angels then took the life of Annabel, and in doing so, also took the life out of The speaker. But surely with a love as strong as this, not even death can keep them apart.
In the first stanza, the "stage" is set for the reader. The time "was many and many a year ago". (line 1) The place, "a kingdom by the sea".(line 2) And who else would the story involve but the fair "Annabel Lee"? She......
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