We Loved With A Love That Was More Than Love, I And My Annabel Lee

“We loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee.” Edgar Allen Poe struck priceless gold with this poem, describing a maiden’s beautiful death, leaving a lover sorrowful and limp. He swears death does not disconnect their souls, and through the long lonely nights he sleeps in her sepulchre on the sandy banks of the sea. Annabel Lee is a bewitching and hypnotic romantic poem that demonstrates the compelling theme of love beyond death, sets a mood of dark bitter nostalgia, and includes many figures of speech that enhance the disposition of this poem. This poem strongly runs back and forth with the ideas of feeling deep, passionate emotion for another human. Poe does an excellent job of keeping this theme evident and always

Hyperboles, metaphors, repetition, rhyme, meter, and imagery all shine brightly through Annabel Lee. “She lived with no other thought than to love and to be loved by me”(emphasis added). This short excerpt represents a hyperbole perfectly, as the exaggeration stresses the beauty and simplicity of their eternal love. The imagery used in this writing amplifies the graphic contrast of love and death, and inspires empathetic notions towards the author. Phrases included such as “the moon never beams,” “the stars never rise,” “all the night-tide i lay by the side,” and “kingdom by the sea,” brings descriptive images of the setting, and the loud passion felt by Poe. Repetition is used multiple times to heavily accentuate the points made. He repeats “my Annabel Lee,” or “my beautiful Annabel Lee,”, which weaves in the author’s own emotions through quiet yet effective phrases. One more useful addition of repetition is in the third to last line; “Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,”. The use of repetition in this extract makes all the difference. It makes the reader feel so much, of, well everything. The pauses, and the thoughtful echo transmits pure longing for what was, and the ever-mournful spirit of the angelic creatures’ absence. The use of figures of speech in this lyrical beauty is so cleverly demonstrated, and plainly represents