Comparison: Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe

Although Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were both romantic poets they interpreted society and death in two completely different ways. Emily Dickinson had a strong cold feeling toward society, so much so that she shut herself in a room and focused on expressing her emotions through poetry. At the

First, the common theme of “The Raven” is grief,agony, and heartache. With dialogue like “while I pondered,weak and weary”shows that emotion. The narrator is sad about his lost love Lenore.Which is parallel to when Poe’s wife was deadly ill. He was probably writing about his wife dying. The poem is also based on the raven being a “Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance”.

This is when Mrs. Mallard’s character finally starts thinking for herself. She no longer has Mr. Mallard to hold her back. Another case of character development is Mr. Mallard’s character. Critics have described Mr. Mallard as being abusive, and harmful to his wife. In the story Chopin writes, “ she will weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death...” (Chopin) This quote is an example that Mr. Mallard was not abusive or unkind to Mrs. Mallard.

He states “ Nodded, nearly, napping” to get the reader to get in the state of mind of how he was feeling, he gets the reader to empathize his feeling of being alone and depressed. Poe uses language such as “ weary and dreary” not just for literary purposes, but to give the readers feeling of what the characters are feeling. Poe repeats the words “ sorrow,” to express how he feels due to the loss of Lenore. Poe calls Lenore “sainted, rare, and radiant” ( Lines 94-95 ), describing her as a perfect, unspoiled, untouchable women. Poe uses assonance to build structure throughout his

Even though both of the poems have completely different tones and emotions toward the reader, they are both extremely powerful and heartfelt. It is evident that the two poems, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings, have many differences because one poem makes the reader feel a sense of loneliness, abandonment, sorrow, and

The narrator assumes forgetting her lover will make the pain better and is angry at her heart for not allowing her to forget him. She wants to forget him as soon as possible “Haste! Lest while you’re lagging” (7), once again using an exclamation point to indicate anger and hurry, wanting the pain to end. The narrator is angry at herself for not being able to forget him and letting him get to her. Dickinson may have used this poem to express her feelings about an unrequited love interest and the pain that comes with it.

In the poem “The Raven” he talks about his love, Lenore passing away and The Raven comes to him and is repetitive. “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven” are similar because they both have the same mood and topic; however the two poems are different because the speaker felt differently about both of his lost girls. In the poem “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven” the mood is sad. In the poem “Annabel Lee” it states, “In her sculpture there by the sea / 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 poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye speaks about how you experience kindness and what it really is. The main point in this poem is that in order to experience people's kindness you need to experience hurt, sorrow, and loneliness. The author says that when you loose everything and have no one or thing that when kindness comes along it lifts you up "and then goes with you everywhere/ like a shadow or a friend" (33-34). When portraying this message the author uses a sad but hopeful tone to send the message she wants to say. This tone helps portray the message because you can feel how sad someone is when they are lonely and they have nothing.

This Poem “The Raven” from Edgar Allen Poe can be emotional or sad whatever you feel first but he talks about what happen that retarded his heart and what devastated him. I don’t really think this poem is as good as people say it is because I didn't really know what was going on until we went over it as a class and talked about it. If you go over it by yourself I feel like it would be hard to understand it but if you talk about it with a class or a friend then you have a better chance of understanding it. But he talks about a time in the life that he isn't being himself because of a chraject thing that happened to him. So the talks about being in a dark place night is dark, dark is usually sadness so he diffenly in pain and he can't stop thinking

The speakers are depressed by the loss of their loved one. For example, in The Raven, the speaker says “from my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore” (638). The speakers in both poems seem almost of their lost loves. In Annabel Lee, the speaker says that nothing “can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (643). I took this as his way of saying he would never let go of his love, even in death.

In this poem, Poe is the speaker and he is explaining how strongly he felt towards Annabel Lee. One can characterizes Poe as is devastated but also *does not give up on their love*. For example “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes”. Poe is explaining that whenever the stars come out, he feels Annabel 's eyes on him. As if he know she is not there physically but he feel her there in spirit.

They are different as Cash’s version is more of a feeling of regret while Reznor’s version is sadness. Both songs are similar as they actually express the singers’ feelings and that they are both hurt by something. Both songs are actually conveying their life experiences to listener. My interpretation for Reznor’s version is that he is singing the song based on one of his sad experiences in life be it his heartbreak or drug addiction while Cash is singing his whole life experiences- the sadness, the regret and the happiness that he had lost. When I listened to reznor’s version, images of people sitting alone in the darkness crying while Cash’s version makes me think of elderly sitting on a rocking chair staring at the door, waiting for their