Annabel Lee | A Note on "Annabel Lee"
In this brief essay, Julienne H. Empric delves into the psychological factors driving the poem's narrator.
The child's vision of reality is, in relation to the larger proportions and understanding of the adult mind, a vision of the grotesque. Time, for example, exists for the child as a present in which, somehow, past and future are simply amalgamated rather than sequential, separate entities. The narrator in "Annabel Lee" says he was a child when he knew and loved his child-bride. From the subsequent workings of his...
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