Annabel Lee Personification

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According to Children's Grief Awareness 1\5 of children will experience the death of someone close to them by the age of 18.(Children's Grief Awareness Day) “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem about a depressed man who misses his Annabel Lee and he goes through explaining how he lost her. Also he talks about how their love was so pure and perfect that nobody had ever had love like they did. The next poem is “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath. In “ Morning Song” Plath is telling how she feels when having her daughter. Normally you would think having a daughter would be a joyful time ,but she explains it as dark. Plath has depression and she talks about her baby as “a statue.” The topics I am going to be introducing are personification, rhyme, …show more content…

Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing described as if it were a person. “The wind came out of the cloud by night,\Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.”(25-26) I picked this example because the wind can’t kill someone that is something only a human can do. Another this example is “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling\My beautiful Annabel Lee.”(15-16) This is explaining the same thing the wind can’t do human things. This is why this a perfect example of personification. The other one I would like to explain is hyperbole. Hyperbole is an exaggeration made for rhetorical effect. The example is “And neither the angels in heaven above\Nor the demons down under the trees.”(30-31) In “Annabel Lee” the theme is very strong. The theme of the poem is loss ,remembrance and love. It is loss because he is talking about how he lost him lover and it is remembrance because he is remembering his lover. Then his love for …show more content…

Plath used a metaphor very well. A metaphor is figure of speech that in which thing is spoken or written about as if it were another. By comparing her baby to a “fat gold watch.”(1) This is a metaphor because she is comparing her baby to something that isn’t real as a figure of speech. The next one I’m going to do is simile. A simile is a comparison using like or as. In “Morning Song” Plath using a simile when she says “ Your mouth is as clean as a cat's.”(15)This is a simile because she is using as. Then Plath is using tone in her poem. The tone is very gentle and when she says “dull stars”(16). This is showing how her tone is gentle and moderate. I chose to do these ones because i feel she used these ones very well. Then are the ones I

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