Monday, August 25, 2014

Are there any other characters in "Annabel Lee", if so who and what do they add to the poem?

The main
character in the poem is the
speaker.  He is responding to the death of his love, .  Annabel Lee
is
another character, but she is dead.  She died when a breeze from the sea came, chilling
and
killing her.

Although Annabel is not really a
character in the present, her
death has a great effect on the
speaker.

And this maiden
she lived with
no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me. (lines
5-6)


It sounds like the two were very
close, and very much in life.  Her
early death still affects him this much
later.  They were both young, so he probably expected to
spend his life with
her.

There are other characters that covet Annabel and

cause her death, making the tone of the poem angry as well as sad.  For example, the
angels were
envious of Annabel, according to the speaker.


The angels,
not half so happy in heaven, /> Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the
reason (as all
men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came
out
of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
(Stanza 4)


There is also mention of
demons down under the sea.  At the end,
the speaker personifies the sun and
the moon, saying their actions remind him of
her.

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