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In reply to #1: He was... almost insane. His parents both died while...

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:32:20 PST

In reply to #1: He was... almost insane. His parents both died while he was at a young age... his wife Annabel Lee died, he was a college dropout... there's allot of stuff that contributes to it... but he wasn't really. INSANE insane. He just had a difficult life.

We'll never know the answer to this question. Annabel Lee was not a real...

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST

We'll never know the answer to this question. Annabel Lee was not a real person but was based on Poe's wife, Virginia Clemm. He was deeply in love with her and greatly mourned her death. Historians tell us that Poe died from complications of alcoholism. Perhaps his beloved wife's death caused him to drink so much, so in that sense you could say that her death eventually led to his death. Unless someone finds a lost journal in some dark, dusty...

The Death of Annabel Lee

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:13:36 PST

Due to the death of Annabel Lee, is it possible that Edgar Allen Poe's death was a result and attempt from the pain of losing her?

I agree that there is no diagnosis of insanity, but I think a case could...

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:11:33 PST

I agree that there is no diagnosis of insanity, but I think a case could be made for bipolar disorder (aka manic depression). It seems that Poe had periods of enormous creativity followed by bottoming lows. He also had a habit of writing about the "double self," thus lending credence to the belief that he felt torn between two existences. Some of his behavior was quite odd as well. I recall reading in his biography that...

Is Stephen King insane? Or any other author of horror and/or gothic...

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:22:09 PST

Is Stephen King insane? Or any other author of horror and/or gothic fiction? Despite the dark nature of his poems and short stories, we don't have the evidence to say whether he was mentally ill. What we can say from them is that he certainly knew what madness looked like. Could a person who was truly insane describe its effects so well?Poe knew sadness and grief his whole life. His mother died when he was only a baby, he frequently argued...

Was Edgar Allan Poe insane?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:43:10 PST

Was Edgar Allan Poe insane?

My class is debating that topic, and I don't know what to say.

The "highborn kinsmen" are Annabel Lee's relatives. We are not...

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:57:49 PST

The "highborn kinsmen" are Annabel Lee's relatives. We are not told why they disapprove of the speaker's relationship with Annabel Lee, but we can infer that he is from a lower socioeconomic class. After Annabel Lee's death, her relatives take possession of her remains and won't even allow the speaker to attend her funeral.Some scholars believe this poem is about Poe's love for and marriage to his cousin Virginia Clemm. Their...

In the poem "Annabel Lee," to whom might the speaker have been...

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:40:11 PST

In the poem "Annabel Lee," to whom might the speaker have been referring when he speaks of "highborn kinsmen"?

The second stanza takes us back to the simpler, magical time of...

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:47:09 PST

The second stanza takes us back to the simpler, magical time of childhood. "She was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea," the speaker recalls. Note the italicized emphasis here. The speaker fondly recalls a time when they were both able to be mentally "together." The speaker savors these magical moments, fondly recalling a world in which myths were real and love loyal. The stanza...

What images does the speaker produce by referring to himself and Annbel...

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:35:21 PST

What images does the speaker produce by referring to himself and Annbel Lee as children?

More than anything, this poem represents the struggles of power in...

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:15:03 PST

More than anything, this poem represents the struggles of power in relationships of the heart. The young couple in the poem are doomed from day one. They are criticized when young for being too young - the adults are superior to them and limit their power. They are doomed as adults by the social classes, which limit them because of their different stations. Finally, they are doomed by the jealousy of the angels, who steal the beautiful...

Virginia Poe did NOT out live Edgar Allan Poe, she died in 1847. Poe...

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:56:04 PST

Virginia Poe did NOT out live Edgar Allan Poe, she died in 1847. Poe died in 1849 and wrote the poem while Virginia was dying but it was not published until shortly after his death. Virginia died of Tuberculosis so it is probably safe to assume that Annabelle Lee also died of the same ailment, even though it is not said in the poem.

I'm currently taking a college course on Edgar Allan Poe and my...

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:48:30 PST

I'm currently taking a college course on Edgar Allan Poe and my professor said that "Annabelle Lee" is a lyric poem. He also says that it is Poe's best lyric poem.

Is the poem "Annabel Lee" a work of power, originality, or...

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:34:19 PST

Is the poem "Annabel Lee" a work of power, originality, or individuality?

The poem was written in 1849. The poem, "Annabel Lee" does...

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:31:59 PST

The poem was written in 1849. The poem, "Annabel Lee" does not state directly how Annabel Lee died. In the 3rd stanza the line, "Chilling my Annabel Lee", and the lines in the 4th stanza, ..... , chilling / And killing my Annabel Lee" might indicate that she died of influenza or pneumonia which would have been common in the 19th century. This is conjecture, of course, since the poem does not represent any one person...

When was "Annabel Lee" written? How did she die?

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:44:01 PST

When was "Annabel Lee" written? How did she die?

I daresay I see no onomatopoeias in the poem, there were metaphors but I...

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:02:22 PST

I daresay I see no onomatopoeias in the poem, there were metaphors but I think it could be a ballad and romantic poetry although I could be mistaken. There are a lot of characteristics that would define it as romantic but the way the syllables are much like a rhyme or childrens stories would make me think of it as a ballad.

Actually, “Annabel Lee” is an elegy in memoriam of Annabel Lee, but...

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:52:24 PST

Actually, “Annabel Lee” is an elegy in memoriam of Annabel Lee, but it is also a famous example of romantic poetry because it is a piece of literature written by the poet in meter or verse expressing various emotions by the use of a variety of techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia. Emphasis is on the aesthetics of language and the use of techniques such as repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used to...

According to research, the only important dates I was able to relate to...

Sat, 26 May 2007 20:45:24 PST

According to research, the only important dates I was able to relate to this poem are as follows. "Annabel Lee" was the last poem that Poe composed, and was first published in November, 1849, in The Southern Literary Messenger, a month or so after his death. Written in 1849. Poe’s death occurred on October 7, 1849. "Annabel Lee" appeared in two newspapers, the Richmond Examiner and the New York Tribune, and then in the 1850 edition of The...

About citation, I have to mention the dates when citing critical...

Sat, 26 May 2007 18:56:28 PST

About citation, I have to mention the dates when citing critical overview on Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel lee" can you please help?