Categorizing Women In Annabel Lee And The Raven
If you take one part symbol, one part imagination, one part clever wording and two parts poetry, you have the workings of an Edgar Allen Poe poem. If you take a look at "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee", you have the narrator of both stories reminiscing about a "lost love". First we will discuss "The Raven".
"Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"; the second line of "The Raven". As many readers look at this, they read more and should discover that the narrator is recalling his past, the "curious volume of forgotten lore". Why would they be forgotten? To me, when the readers get to Lenore in the next few lines, he wasn't remembering the "pleasant times" with her. As I will mention when I discuss "Annabel Lee", the narrator covertly confesses to murdering the women about whom they are written. The complexity of these poems lies in the nature of the speaker, who wished to make his (narrator) guilt public, yet at the time, enjoys keeping it hidden. The principle of a......
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