That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ...
Interestingly, the poem Annabel Lee was published after the death
of Poe. Appropriately, it was his last poem. This is a delicious, yet horrifying love
poem.
The narration is first person with the narrator remembering a painful
memory of a lost love. The narrator knew the young woman many years ago. They were both
children that lived in a kingdom by a sea and loved each other even as children. When the angels
looked down from heaven and saw the love between them, the angels were jealous. Blaming the
angels causing the death of Annabel Lee, the speaker feels that they sent a wind that made her
sick with a chill which finally causes her death.
After she died, her
highborn kinsman comes and buries her in a tomb. The narrator does not...
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