Figurative Language In Annabel Lee

In the poem written by Edgar Allen Poe, “Annabel Lee”, he uses various tone words to create the mood. The poem is about a man who loved a woman, this woman got sick and was taken away from him and eventually died. He most likely created this poem about how he loved and lost somebody in his life and therefor used these types of word to convey his feelings. The mood that is overall conveyed by these tone words is powerful and dark.

Edgar Allen Poe uses words like kingdom and maiden which are words that make you think of power. The word kingdom that he uses to describe where they are in the poem is a very powerful, it holds a lot of meaning in the word. The word maiden that was mentioned earlier doesn’t necessarily represent power but is a word that sounds more complicated than just saying girl or women. Though the word maiden still means girl or women it represents that they are of more important than a girl. In the poem, he uses the word kinsmen which at first glance looks like a really powerful word, but the word kinsmen just means a man in the family of the person that you are talking about.

The words that he used in the poem are also

dark. Edgar Poe also uses words like bore and envying. The word bore, which is a simple one, sounds aggressive when it really means to just take away or move through something. Even though the word bore doesn’t actually mean that you are taking something forcefully but it surely sounds like it. In the poem, the word envying is also used. The word envy is just another word for jealousy but it sounds worse than that. When you hear the word envy the words jealousy and other words like it may come to mind, but if you think about it sometimes the word can be used to be darker and mean that the person who is envying someone wants something of theirs or wants revenge. He also used the word Demon which for obvious reasons is a dark word. The word demon represents darkness and the evil of the thin in question.

Most of the words that have been mentioned aren’t the most descriptive of the words in the poem, but the words mentioned have a deeper meaning if you think about it.

The word kingdom that was used to represent power doesn’t actually represent power but there is a deeper meaning behind it that you relate with the word. With the word kingdom, you relate that with the people who are in a kingdom which are kings and queens. The kings and queens have a lot of power which is why the word kingdom represents power. Also, other words that are mentioned such as maiden and kinsmen are not powerful words but they are words that are more complicated that are used to represent a simpler word. Edgar could have used the word brothers and girl but to convey the power and importance behind the words he uses the words kinsmen and

maiden.

These were some of the moods that were created by these negative connotative tone words that Edgar Allen Poe uses in his poem, Annabelle Lee.” The words that he uses represent power and darkness. The words that he uses are more complicated versions of more simpler ones that he could have. He used more powerful words to convey the importance of the people in the poem and that helps you understand why these people have power or how they are important. These were the words that Edgar Allen Poe used to convey a Powerful and Dark mood.