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   lynn30k Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

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   "Annabel Lee" is written in the first person. Poe refers to himself, and to himself as part of the couple. "We loved with a love..." etc. When the author refers to himself or herself in writing as "me", "I", "we" etc., the work is in first person. If he had talked about Annabel Lee and her lover as "they", that would be third person--the author would have removed himself from participation in the poem.

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   wizarcd

   In "Annabel Lee" written by Edgar Allan Poe, the point of view is the first person.

   It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
   That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
   And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.
   
   I was a child and she was a child,
   In this kingdom by the sea;
   But we loved with a love that was more than love-
   I and my Annabel Lee;
   With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
   Coveted her and me.
   
   And this was the reason that, long ago,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
   A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
   My beautiful Annabel Lee;
   So that her highborn kinsman came
   And bore her away from me,
   To shut her up in a sepulchre
   In this kingdom by the sea.
   
   The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
   Went envying her and me-
   Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
   In this kingdom by the sea)
   That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
   
   But our love it was stronger by far than the love
   Of those who were older than we-
   Of many far wiser than we-
   And neither the angels in heaven above,
   Nor the demons down under the sea,
   Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
   
   For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
   And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
   And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
   Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
   In the sepulchre there by the sea,
   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

    

   BY bolded and italicized lines, you see that it's written in first

   person  point of vies.

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