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Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee. By Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea , That a maiden lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; - And this maiden lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. . She was a child, and I was a child,

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Annabel Lee

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  1. Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

  2. It was many and many a year ago, • In a kingdom by the sea, • That a maiden lived whom you may know • By the name of Annabel Lee; - • And this maiden lived with no other thought • Than to love and be loved by me.

  3. She was a child, and I 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 winged seraphs of heaven • Coveted her and me.

  4. And this was the reason that , long ago, • In this kingdom by the sea, • A wind blew out of the cloud, chilling • My beautiful Annabel Lee; • So that her high-born kinsmen came • To shut her up, in a sepulcher, • In this kingdom by the sea.

  5. 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.

  6. 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: -

  7. For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams • Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; • And the stars never rise, but I see 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 sepulcher there by the sea – • In her tomb by the sounding sea.

  8. “Annabel Lee” Notes • Poe blames the jealous angels for Annabel Lee’s death. • The poem “Annabel Lee” reads like a fairy tale. • The phrase “kingdom by the sea” recurs throughout the poem. • The repetition of sounds, words, or phrases in “Annabel Lee” create and emotional effect.

  9. “Annabel Lee” Notes • Poe implies the he is “lowborn” and deserves the readers’ sympathy when he refers to Annabel Lee’s kinsmen as highborn. • When Poe states “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams”, he is implying that his dreams are brought on by the moon. • After her death Annabel Lee is shut up in a sepulcher by her kinsmen.

  10. “Annabel Lee” Notes • Annabel Lee’s only thought was to be loved by the narrator • The angels envied the narrator and Annabel Lee’s great love • Annabel Lee died when a wind chilled her • Neither the angels nor the demons could ever separate the narrator’s soul from Annabel Lee

  11. Many of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, are marked by deep sadness over the loss of a loved one. It is a sadness that began in Poe’s childhood with his father’s desertion and the death of his mother – a dark despair that continued throughout his life.

  12. Poe once wrote that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” It is a topic that Poe knew all too well: in his short lifetime, he had lost his mother, his foster mother, and his wife. There is little wonder why so many of his poems are about the death of a loved one.

  13. Daguerreotype • An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.

  14. Poe experienced tragedy in his life. He was born into poverty; his father was an alcoholic who left when Edgar was young; his mother died of tuberculosis; his foster mother and his wife died; he lived and died in poverty.

  15. Poe's cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced his death publicly. Fewer than 10 people attended the hasty funeral for one of the 19th century's greatest writers. And the injustices piled on. Poe's tombstone was destroyed before it could be installed, when a train derailed and crashed into a stonecutter's yard. Rufus Griswold, a Poe enemy, published a libelous obituary that damaged Poe's reputation for decades.

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