In the
poem "" by , the speaker of the story is deeply in love with his wife, Annabel Lee,
who has tragically died. He describes their love as "more than a love" and explains
the following:
[She] lived with no other
thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
The
narrator explains that the angels in heaven so envied the love they shared that they sent a wind
"chilling and killing my Annabel Lee." After her death, Annabel Lee is placed in a
sepulcher, a monument built of stone, by the sea. The narrator describes how he stays connected
to her, now that she is gone, by visiting her every night.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darlingmy darlingmy
life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea
In her tomb by the
sounding sea.
From the description of their love as
"stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we," the reader can gather
that the narrator and Annabel Lee were young and in love in a way that people rarely are as they
age. Their love is eternal, because Annabel Lee dies before they are able to grow up and out of
love.
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