The title of this poem is “Annabel Lee”. It refers to the speaker’s beautiful lover. Edgar Allan Poe is portraying with the speaker’s lover that she was a death. The location in this poem is a kingdom by the sea. They love together since they were child. The speaker and his lover were separated by her highborn kinsmen. She was killed by her highborn kinsmen. Even though the speaker knows that she has died, but he was still loving her forever. This poem has six stanzas. The poet uses pronoun “I” and “My” that refer to the speaker. The poet uses the name of the speaker’s lover “Annabel Lee” in all of stanzas in order to mention to her all the time. In the first, second, third, and forth stanzas is used a noun phrase “In (a)this kingdom by the sea” to emphasize the location in this poem. However, all of stanzas have imagery in this poem. In the first stanza has six lines. The poet mentions to the speaker’s lover. Her name is Annabel Lee. She is a maiden. They lived in a kingdom by the sea. In the first line “It was many and many a year ago” rhymes with in the third line “That a maiden there lived whom you may know”. In the second line “In a kingdom by the sea” rhymes with in the fourth line “By the name of Annabel Lee” and in the sixth line “Than to love and be love by me”. In the first line “It was many and many a year ago”, the poet use words “many a year” that means “many years” for describing large number of the time in the poem. In the first line, we think the words “A
It’s detailed like a memory and provides the audience of just one incidence the narrator was able to recollect. The poem’s main focus is to take a little look into the disparity between traditional feminine
“Annabel Lee” is the shared named of a poem and a song based off of it. Edgar Allen Poe wrote the poem “Annabel Lee” in 1849. The poem is about a man who has lost his love and is in mourning. Tiger Army wrote a song based on the poem in 2001. There are many similarities in the two pieces as well as some differences.
The poem begins with the narrator describing being alone in the woods. She is being dragged through the water, by a mysterious man which develops the sense of imprisonment. She describes the man’s language as not human and she turned to prayer to find strength.
Another portion of the text that is worth analyzing is whether or not the poet is a real person or a generalization about all or most poets. All of the lines in the poem use general text and never label a specific person. What’s interesting about the text is that without the title it would be nearly impossible to distinguish whether or not the person the poem is about is a poet or not. The way the text allows the reader to find a figurative meaning to the poem is by being vague enough and
The narrator immediately incorporates symbolism insinuating the emphasis on struggle in the first stanza. Symbolizing adversity, she tells the reader “I think by now the river must be thick with salmon. Late August,
In her tomb by the sounding sea” (40-41). This tells us that Annabel Lee is deceased and when someone talks about a death it is sad. “The wind came out of the cloud by night, / Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (25-26). This, also being from “Annabel Lee” Poe writes because he believes the angels in heaven killed her because their love was too strong and so they were jealous. This gives a sad tone because again, Poe talks about her death.
Edgar Allan Poe is irrevocably in love with Annabel Lee at the start and throughout the whole of this poem. Annabel Lee is just the same reciprocating the exact same feelings if not more. “With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me” this portrays to me a love so strong and so passionate that even heaven has reckoned it by blessing their relationship with an angelic power. Both characters are mercilessly separated at the
In the first stanza’s, the narrator’s voice and perspective is more collective and unreliable, as in “they told me”, but nonetheless the references to the “sea’s edge” and “sea-wet shell” remain constant. Later on the poem, this voice matures, as the “cadence of the trees” and the “quick of autumn grasses” symbolize the continuum of life and death, highlighting to the reader the inevitable cycle of time. The relationship that Harwood has between the landscape and her memories allows for her to delve deeper into her own life and access these thoughts, describing the singular moments of human activity and our cultural values that imbue themselves into landscapes. In the poem’s final stanza, the link back to the narrator lying “secure in her father’s arms” similar to the initial memory gives the poem a similar cyclical structure, as Harwood in her moment of death finds comfort in these memories of nature. The water motif reemerges in the poem’s final lines, as “peace of this day will shine/like light on the face of the waters.”
At the end of the second paragraph there is a stanza break from the word “princesses” to “Now I’ve found a quilt” from line 13. This stanza break is significant because it shows the change of tone of the speaker. In the first paragraph one can see a caring tone. Shown when the speaker says “Meema” which shows that the speaker must have really cared for their grandmother in order to call them such a caring name. Then in paragraph 2 there is a change of tone to excitement, shown in line line 14 when it says “ I’d like to die under”.
The poem begins with the speaker looking at a photograph of herself on a beach where the “sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush” (Trethewey l. 5-7). The beach is an area where two separate elements meet, earth and water, which can represent the separation of the different races that is described during the time that her grandmother was alive and it can also represent the two races that are able to live in harmony in the present day. The clothing that the two women wear not only represent how people dressed during the different time periods, but in both the photographs of the speaker and her grandmother, they are seen standing in a superman-like pose with their hands on “flowered hips” (Trethewey l. 3,16). The flowers on the “bright bikini” (Trethewey l. 4) are used to represent the death of segregation, similar to how one would put flowers on a loved one’s grave, and on the “cotton meal sack dress” (Trethewey l. 17) it is used to symbolize love and peace in a troubled society.
We can see that the quote is demonstrating the impatient approach towards love in within someone increases when beauty does not surround you. Despite this story using a various approach towards manipulating us to the theme, the poem uses literary and symbolic devices to exhibit the poets life. However, in the poem, the poet uses the ocean to show that all of his emotions are mixed to form one big vast area. In line 2 it mentions”What is there in the great sphere of the earth”. This demonstrates that the area is so vast, that peace cannot be eradicated in a few areas, and
Through the words reflecting melancholy and sorrow, we can sense the narrator's self destruction due to the death of the woman he loved. As one examines the figurative language of the poem, one finds that its form and
The first stanza is the speaker telling the woman that when she "[is] old and grey and full of sleep,"(1) just read "this book" of her past. The second stanza moves on to talk about her past relationships. Halfway through the stanza, though, he indicates "one man" who loved her better than the rest. This is an indication of his loving
In Annabel lee by Edgar Allen Poe the use of his tone words has an overall effect of the mood. He uses all of these connotative tone words to show the loving tone it has. The connotative words he uses are very deep and passionate words about his love to Annabel Lee. Edgar said that she loved him and he loved her. That they thought about nothing else but to love and be loved by one another.
The author effectively broke up the poem into stanzas, each stanza discussed a different scene. It represented a condensed timeline of a love diminishing. Each stanza is creating a different scene and the change in meter helps transition from each stanza. She starts off talking about a perfect rose, but then moves on to talk about how maybe something beside a rose should represent love. Maybe the author has fallen in love in the past, but then slowly fell out of it and was no