Monday, January 18, 2010

In the poem "Annabel Lee," according to the narrator, why was his love taken away from him?

The
narrator's lover in the famous poem by , "," is the title character. Over the course
of the poem, the narrator relates that Annabel Lee was chilled in line 14, which eventually
killed her. He says, "the wind came out of a cloud by night, / chilling and killing my
Annabel Lee" (25-26). As a result, her cold body was then taken away to be placed in a tomb
by her family in lines 27-30.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines
"chill" as "a cold feeling" and also as "an illness that makes you feel
cold." In...

href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chill">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chill
href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heaven">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heaven
href="https://www.owleyes.org/text/annabel-lee/read/annabel-lee">https://www.owleyes.org/text/annabel-lee/read/annabel-lee

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