Literary Structure Of Annabel Lee

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“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe One of the most beautiful, Victorian poems to ever be written was by Edgar Allan Poe. The Poem is called “Annabel Lee”. This poem marks the life and death of Poe’s wife. “My darling-my darling-my life and my bride” (39), these are the words that lovers all over the world should use to show the love they have for their partner. In the poem Poe describes his one true love and her tragic death to show how he is hurting and the longing he has for her. This poem also shows his personal beliefs about death and their love of the sea. The poem discusses the envy that her family members had for their love for one another. This is a beautiful love poem for all times. The structure of this poem is a Ballard, with its repeating words such as “In this kingdom by the sea or Annabel Lee” (2, 4). Poe seems to bring together different tones in this poem from a fairytale beginning to a dark and gloomy ending. This poem is set up with a rhyme scheme of abad and its pattern is Poe writes “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabel Lee” (15-16). This places an image of a beautiful lady becoming cold from the cool air that is blowing around her, in the head of the reader. Another image of the night where the narrator is lying in the dark and the moonbeams and the stars won’t rise in the night sky. This verse says “for the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; and the stars never rise” (34-36). The second element that this poem has is repetition. For this element Poe repeats several lines over and over again, such as “Of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (35) and “In this kingdom by the sea” (24). He wants the reader to be fully aware of the subject matter of this poem and to make sure the reader knows how important he believes his words are. Repetition helps Poe bring into effect and agonizing issue within his writing. This is the loss of his beloved Annabel

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