Monday, January 9, 2017

What is the sensory language in "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe?

In literature,
is
the description of sensory experiences: it can, therefore, be
visual (to
describe a sight), auditory (to describe a sound), olfactory (to describe a
smell),
tactile (to describe how something would feel if touched), or
gustatory (to describe a taste) in
nature. When the speaker describes how "A
wind blew out of a cloud, chilling / [his]
beautiful ," he employs both
visual and tactile imagery, as we can both see the cloud in
our mind's eye
and feel its chill. Then, when her


highborn
kinsmen came
And bore her away from me, />To shut her up in a
sepulchre
In this kingdom by the
sea,

the
narrator uses a great deal of
visual imagery: we can imagine the sight of Annabel Lee's fancy
kinsmen, her
sepulcher, and the kingdom just near the water. Again, we can see and hear
the
"wind [come] out of the cloud by night" as a result of the visual and
auditory
imagery, and we can see the "moon [. . .] beams" and the "stars [. .
.]
rise." In the final line, we can even hear the "sounding sea" as a result
of the
auditory imagery.

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