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This paper analyses and summarizes the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe which was written in memory of his wife. It depicts the poetic devices used to make the reader realize the loss and love felt by the poet for his beloved.

Tags:annabel, lee, poe

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This paper explains that the most important part of Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee", is the speaker's love for Annabel Lee and how his love is unaffected by her death. The author points out that the word choice in this poem, which uses words that give the feeling of a medieval fairy tale story, is one of the greatest aspects of the entire work. The paper relates that the speaker describes many series of opposites throughout the entire poem, such as the idea from the beginning through the end that the speaker says they are in a "kingdom by the sea". The author concludes that "Annabel Lee" was not a religious prayer or any type of sermon; but rather, Poe wrote this poem with the knowledge that love will stay forever.

From the Paper
"Many times throughout the poem the speaker tells about how heavenly beings and winged seraphs look down and how they wish they had the same love that the speaker and Annabel Lee share together. There is a possibility that these angels could have caused the death of Annabel Lee, or at least the speaker thinks this is a possibility. Many things such as jealousy could be explanations to why the angels, or devils, would have killed what was a great young relationship between two lovers. In the fifth stanza the speaker directly talks about these beings."

Tags:storytelling, stanza, relationship, opposites, sepulcher

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This paper examines how Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" all depict the tragic loss of young and beautiful women. Poe describes Lenore, Annabel Lee and Madeline as young and achingly beautiful and all three women die premature and tragic deaths. In "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee," Poe mourns their tragic loss, while in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe is clearly simply horrified at the gruesome and tragic death and he is not so deeply wrought with grief over the loss of someone he loves. It considers how Poe's depictions of women in his literary work reflect his personal experiences with the premature deaths of his young and attractive wife and mother. Poe's depictions remain relevant to readers of all ages and nationalities, as they speak to the universal misery of tragic loss and mourning.

From the Paper
"Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" recounts the perfect love of the narrator and his child bride Annabel Lee. As in the Raven, Poe delves into the tragic loss of a beautiful woman within the lines of "Annabel Lee". Annabel Lee's similarity in age to Poe's young real-life bride is striking, and the poem can be seen as a reflection of Poe's grief over the loss of his young wife. As in "The Raven", Poe focuses on the beauty of the young woman who dies tragically. The stars and the moon even remind the narrator of the young woman's beauty after her tragic death. "Annabel Lee" focuses primarily on the depth of the feelings of between the two young lovers, while "The Raven" focuses more clearly on the grief at the loss of the young woman. In "Annabel Lee", the narrator tells a tale of a kingdom by the sea, where both he and Annabel Lee lived, and that they "loved with a love that was more than love.""

Tags:death, youth, beauty, wife, mother, saint, angel, love

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The paper first examines the poem "Annabel Lee" and shows how Edgar Allan Poe captures the mystery of love with the mystic images of heaven and the sea. The paper then turns to Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" and how he uses humor along with images of nature to illustrate his theme of love. Finally, the paper highlights how in "A Red, Red Rose," Robert Burns expresses the same type of sentiment as Poe does in that love is beautiful like things of nature. The paper therefore illustrates how each poet successfully expresses his love through nature imagery.

From the Paper
"Images of nature are often used to describe the depths of love. Poets near and far lean upon the element of nature because nature is beautiful, long-lasting, and always surrounds us in one form or another. Three poems that illustrate the incorporation of nature to emphasize the depths of love are Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee," William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130," and Richard Burns' "A Red, Red Rose." While each of these poets utilizes the technique of nature imagery in different ways, each poet successfully expresses his love through nature imagery. Through images of the sea and heaven, Poe allows us to see the loftiness and not-of-this-world aspect of his love. Shakespeare uses nature in almost the opposite way - but admitting his lover does not have beauty like nature only demonstrates the true depth of his love. Burns, on the other hand, brings us back to nature by comparing his love to seas gone dry and rocks melting away."

Tags:heaven, sea, humor, beauty

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This paper explains how and why much of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry revolves around the idea of beautiful, dead women. The paper uses two of his poems, "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven," to demonstrate this theme and illustrates how they are both manifestations of Poe's real-life heartache with women.

From the Paper
"Poe describes Lenore, Annabel Lee and Madeline as young and achingly beautiful and all three women die premature and tragic deaths. In "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee", Poe mourns their tragic loss, while in "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe is clearly simply horrified at the gruesome and tragic death, and he is not so deeply wrought with grief over the loss of someone he loves. It considers how Poe's depictions of women in his literary work reflect his personal experiences with the premature deaths of his young and attractive wife and mother. Poe's depictions remain relevant to readers of all ages and nationalities, as they speak to the universal misery of tragic loss and mourning."

Tags:father, abandoned, mother, childhood, wife, disaster, tragedy, loss, master, of, the, macabre

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This paper compares the common theme of death and the tones of the three poems, "The Raven", "Annabel Lee" and "The Spirit of the Dead", and reviews events in Poe's life that influenced his poetry. The paper discusses Poe's use of rhythm and symbolism in the three poems. The author points out that, even though Poe is widely known as the originator of the modern detective story, he thought of himself first as a lyric poet and published poems and treatises on poetry.

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"Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven is overcome by the bird raven which is symbolic of death. This poem is a dirge about the poet's defunct wife. In the poem, the narrator seeks consolation from a giant bird whose only utterance is the dismal "nevermore". He asks the bird many questions about his long lost love, the exceptional and luminous maiden whom the angels name Lenore. But, the only response that he hears is "nevermore". He inquires about his love, solely with the intention of further torturing himself. Throughout the poem "The Raven", Poe makes a personal, introverted hell strangely mesmerizing to all the readers."

Tags:death, nevermore, rhythem, symbolism, sorrow

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"Edgar Allan Poe shows a fascination with death, disease, and decay in his stories and poems, and he uses symbolism to represent death and dying as something that takes place not separate from life but deeply embedded within it. Poe mixes life and death in a variety of ways, so much so that he seems to show a morbid fascination with the processes of dying and with the symbolism of death.

Poe's preoccupation with death and more specifically with death-in-life is seen in many of his short stories. The character of Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a man whose senses are so acute as to cause him physical pain -- a case of one who lives life is in an ultra mode that restricts his movements so much as to reduce rather than enhance life. His sister shows a different form of life-in-death, or..."

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The paper examines several of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, including "Annabel Lee," "The Haunted Palace," and "The Conqueror Worm." The paper analyzes how Poe uses the rhythmic beat and repetition of poetry to suggest the inevitability of death. The paper maintains that his poetry was a means of exploring his own apparent fatalism and of articulating his morbid sadness.

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"It is arguable that no other writer in American history has produced work as unsettling and as suspensefully macabre as Edgar Allan Poe. Obviously, his short stories are notorious for their haunting imagery, their dark themes and for their lurid depictions of the "dark side" of human nature. However, Poe's poetry is also surprisingly animated with dark images - particularly the stark imagery of death. Indeed, a case can certainly be made that some of his best poetry is more suffused (or at least as suffused) with images of the "world beyond" than is the best of his short stories."

Tags:Annabel Lee, The Haunted Palace, The Conqueror Worm, fatalism, morbidity

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This paper deals with Edgar Allan Poe's tragic history in relation to its effect on how he viewed religion and the American dream. Quotes from his three poems, "The Conqueror Worm", "Annabel Lee", and "The City in the Sea" are used to support theories on the cause of his twisted mind and dark works. The paper also quotes from credited Poe experts, to enforce the credibility of the essay and provide insight into Poe's life and works.

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"After being taken in by the Allan family, Mrs. Allan died of tuberculosis. As an older man, Poe married his first cousin, named Virginia, who died of tuberculosis as well. The deaths of those he cared about taught him not to care about anyone or anything, for it would surely be ripped from him. As quoted from the website "Edgar Allan Poe", "After Virginia's death from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe's lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened". The physical death of his family triggered the emotional death of love. The death of love itself let alone the actual death of a loved one is the death of hope in itself. Many feel that love is the heart's only true happiness, which could be the reason that Edgar Allan Poe spent his life telling tales that gleaned not a drop of happiness."

Tags:conqueror, worm, city, in, the, sea, poetry, literature, religion, love, depression, genius

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This paper explores the various dangers of biographical criticism, that is, looking at the facts of the author's life to understand their work, and how best to discuss literature. Some of the pieces mentioned in the paper include "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, "Event" by Sylvia Plath, and "When I Have Fears" by John Keats.

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"A very similar situation can be seen in Sylvia Plath's "Event." There is no question that the poem has an infinitely dark tone; however, it is not necessarily someone's final thoughts before death. Without knowing it was one of the last few poems she wrote before she died, one might take it as the death of the baby: the face "carved in painted, red wood." Everything before and after that line can be read as the despair of a mother loosing her child. With the downward spiral into even darker terms like "a black gap" and "The dark is melting," one could take it as someone's dream or descent into a coma. The list goes on. The point is, there is no one way to read the poem, until you link it with facts. Again, just like with Poe, it is very possible, even likely that this poem was about her impending suicide, but if one had that fact of her life in mind while reading it, many people would focus on that fact and be blind to all the other rich, valid interpretations."

Tags:interpretation, keats, formalist