Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

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“Annabel Lee” written by Edgar Allan Poe takes the reader through a narrative story of love, dedication, loss and acceptance, capturing the reader’s emotional interest. Edgar Allan Poe is known for his style of writing in the American Romantic movement and as his last poem to ever be published “Annabel Lee” exists as a final message to his audience. The structure of Poe’s poem is based around love and envy, as we explore each stanza we will uncover the relationship between the poet and his characters in the poem. In “Annabel Lee” we learn that it takes place in a kingdom by the sea where Poe meets a woman named Annabel Lee. This poem was the last poem to be published by Poe and it was written after the death of his wife, it is believed to …show more content…

The tenth commandment is “You shall not covet”. Poe mentions that the angels of the highest order covet the love of him and his Annabel Lee. He is describing just how much they love each other. The type of love he is describing is so strong and desired that even an angel would go against the rule of a …show more content…

Poe and Annabel Lee love each other and were so in love that the angels could not handle witnessing it that they took swift action and took away Poe’s true love. The love story he tells is sweet and touches the hearts of those who have experienced love on their own. Next, we experience envy and the ugly face and truth that jealously has and what power it holds. Unfortunately, envy caused the death of a beautiful love between two young lovers. Then the reader experiences the loss of a loved one. Those who have lost someone can relate to the endless love that the one left standing experience for the lost

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