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Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

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.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we—

Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea—

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Fin

How he was Influenced by others and etc.

  • Early in his career he was influenced by the works of E.T.A. Hoffman, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

  • He was also greatly inspired by the works of Charles Dickens. In Poe's poem the Raven he actually was inspired to make it due to the fact that Charles Dickens' pet was in fact a raven named Grip.

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Attitude - The tone created by the poet through his use of imagery and repetition is a fantastical yet woefully depressing one at that.

Connotation - In "Annabel lee" the author uses repetition and Imagery to steadily change the environment for the readers from that of a happy scene to that of a woeful depressing scene representing how glum life can get. He achieves this first portion by setting it up with pretty imagery like “In this kingdom by the sea”(line 2) which brings to mind an elegant castle. However he uses repetition to create a sad and woeful effect upon that of the readers almost repeating as if the speaker himself were in disbelief of his bride's death.

Shifts - Although the poem starts off in a fantastically great tone where everything is fine by the time it reaches the third stanza we start to see the shift to the more woeful portion of the poem as we learn about the death of the speaker's bride.

Annabel Lee

Title - Upon looking at the title I see a name. I believe this poem to be about a potential love interest of the speaker.

Paraphrase- In this Poem the speaker talks about his significant other Annabel, who loved him as much as he loved her, and of her death and burial and how even in death they are inseparable. He even goes as far to mention that he goes to sleep beside her in her tomb.

More Research...

Why Edgar Allan Poe fits under Gothic

  • Gothic literature is characterized by a dark atmosphere, inclusions of the"paranormal", and certain psychological and or emotional elements are incorporated into literary works.
  • Edgar Allan Poe fits under the literary umbrella of Gothic literature due to his use of a Dark and foreboding atmosphere and his use of Victorian or medieval settings as well as his use of intense human emotions such as despair.

Research

  • Was born January 19, 1809 in Boston

Massachusetts.

  • Edgar Allan Poe lived during the Gothic era of literary works.

  • Parents died when he was three.

  • he was put into a Foster home and raised by a man named John Allan who never formally adopted him.

Reevaluating the title

Upon looking more closely we learn that this poem is indeed about a person, but we learn that said person happens to be the now deceased bride of the speaker who died from a cold.

Alone

Analytical commentary

"A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee; "

#1

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

Of a most stormy life—was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still—

From the torrent, or the fountain—

From the red cliff of the mountain—

From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold—

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by—

From the thunder, and the storm—

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view—

"That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. "

  • The poet Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery and repetition to develop his theme of love being able to transcend barriers.
  • The use of imagery in this poem helps to depict the scenery and really sets the initial tone in this poem. It also aids in showing the emotional distress of the speaker.
  • The use of repetition in this poem helps to further the feeling of woe in the poem by creating a sad almost disbelieving persona.

Analytical commentary #2

  • The poet Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery and symbolism to develop his theme of isolation in being different from society and its standards. The use of imagery in this helps to really segregate what he experiences from what society experiences to show how truly different these two views are, and how distant he is in being able to make such observations that others haven't. The use of symbolism here is used to split Poe from society in the fact that while Heaven is blue (Society) he can't help but see ""the cloud that took the form/Of a demon in my view—". That cloud all by its self represents how all of the storms in his life or these depressing events have come together to create one whole entity of despair, which happens to be himself which further isolates him on a level that society will never know.

The Haunted Palace

Analytical commentary #3

But evil things, in robes of sorrow,

Assailed the monarch’s high estate;

(Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow

Shall dawn upon him, desolate!)

And round about his home the glory

That blushed and bloomed

Is but a dim-remembered story

Of the old time entombed.

And travellers, now, within that valley,

Through the red-litten windows see

Vast forms that move fantastically

To a discordant melody;

While, like a ghastly rapid river,

Through the pale door

A hideous throng rush out forever,

And laugh—but smile no more.

The poet Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery and metaphor to develop his theme of the role of one's identity in the loss of sanity in "The Haunted Palace". In the poem Poe describes the scenery at first using fanciful imagery to create a false illusion of a "happy" area. Until we arrive upon stanza 5 we then hear of "evil things, in robes of sorrow" that are attacking the king's estate.

Poe uses the estate has one humongous metaphor for the kings mind. Therefore this shows that the king has gone from being a happy go luck individual into a depressed individual who is going insane, since his mind is "desolate".

In the greenest of our valleys

By good angels tenanted,

Once a fair and stately palace—

Radiant palace—reared its head.

In the monarch Thought’s dominion,

It stood there!

Never seraph spread a pinion

Over fabric half so fair!

Banners yellow, glorious, golden,

On its roof did float and flow

(This—all this—was in the olden

Time long ago)

And every gentle air that dallied,

In that sweet day,

Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,

A wingèd odor went away.

Wanderers in that happy valley,

Through two luminous windows, saw

Spirits moving musically

To a lute’s well-tunèd law,

Round about a throne where, sitting,

Porphyrogene!

In state his glory well befitting,

The ruler of the realm was seen.

And all with pearl and ruby glowing

Was the fair palace door,

Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing

And sparkling evermore,

A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty

Was but to sing,

In voices of surpassing beauty,

The wit and wisdom of their king.

The Theme

  • The theme of this poem is that of love and its ability to seemingly transcend any and all barriers. Even barriers such as death.

By Tyson Flores

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