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Annabel Lee By: Edgar Allen Poe. Nick Guadarrama. Basic facts about Edgar Allen Poe. Both parents died before he was 3 years old Born in B oston 1809 Died October 7 1849 Wife dies of terbeculosus. I nfluences.
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Annabel Lee By: Edgar Allen Poe Nick Guadarrama
Basic facts about Edgar Allen Poe • Both parents died before he was 3 years old • Born in Boston 1809 • Died October 7 1849 • Wife dies of terbeculosus
Influences • Every women he comes in contact with dies, mother, wife/ cousin, friends mother • All of his poems are tragic
What makes his Poetry Unique? • Dark • Sad/melancholy • repeated us of end rhymes ”sea”, “lee”, and “me” offer a link from stanza to stanza
Poetic device 1 • "but we loved with a love more than love." "stars never rise but i see bright eyes" • Uses assonance with “love” because of the ov sound • “rise” and “eyes” because of the long I sound
Poetic device 2 • “her tomb by the side of the sea” • This uses imagery because you can see the tomb next the sea uses the sight sense
Poetic device 3 • “moon never beams, stars never rise” Uses hyperbole because that is impossible for the moon to never beam and never see the stars
Theme • Death • Death is the theme because he is talking about how is wife dying the whole poem • The main topic is about his wife's death