![]() ![]() ![]() But the narrator reiterates that their “love it was stronger by far” (line 28) and neither demons nor angels could separate their souls, for she is in his dreams and in the stars. Annabel Lee, however, could not recover from her sickness and died in her young age, physically separating the two lovers. Her family took her home and “shut her up in a sepulchre” (line 20), bedridden, in order for her to try to get healthy again. The poem is a story of love between two children (one being the narrator) who felt so strongly for one another that the angels in Heaven became envious and casted “the wind” from “out of the clouds at night” (line 26), causing Annabel Lee to get sick. Poe creates heartbreaking imagery, symbolism, alliteration, and repetition to induce the pain the narrator felt and establish the theme of the inevitability of death replacing life and prevailing love. ![]() It adopts a dark and melancholy tone while simultaneously encompassing a fairytale, sing-song manner. The poem is the retelling of a beautiful memory that has a tragic twist. Edgar Allan Poe’s last completed poem and one of his most famous, Annabel Lee, embodies the dark romanticism/gothic literature style that he perfected throughout his lifetime. Poe’s brand of romanticism was characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and high emotion. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer known for his works of poetry distributed throughout the Romantic era. ![]()
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