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Annabel Lee
The narrator's lover in the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee," is the title character. Over the course of the poem, the narrator relates that Annabel Lee was chilled in line 14, which...
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Annabel Lee
I feel that there are two specific lines in this poem that point readers toward the fact that Annabel Lee has died. The first line is in the third stanza. So that her highborn kinsmen came...
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Moby Dick
First, according to a search on the Google Ngram viewer, this particular phrase "living life to its fullest" originated in the 1920s, had a few brief years of moderate popularity, and then did not...
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Annabel Lee
In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee,” there is only one thing the narrator finds worth living for – his Annabel Lee. Annabel herself was a maiden who lived only to love and be loved by...
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Annabel Lee
The speaker's reaction is certainly one of undying dedication. "Annabel Lee" can be read in the context of American Romanticism. It employs language to evoke mood and emotion; it uses elements of...
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Annabel Lee
The first major literary element used in Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" is genre. The poem is written in the form that uses many of the conventions of the traditional ballad, including simple language,...
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Annabel Lee
In the poem "Annabel Lee," by far the word that is repeated most from the first two stanzas is the word "love." In the first two stanzas alone, it is repeated six times, though it only has two more...
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Annabel Lee
Two references are made to Heaven in the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. The first comes in the second stanza: "But we loved with a love that was more than love-- I and my Annabel Lee--...
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Annabel Lee
Tone is defined as the author's attitude toward the subject he/she is writing about or towards the audience. Attitude can be defined as one's "mental and emotional outlook," or feelings toward a...
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Annabel Lee
The last stanza of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe titled "Annabel Lee" reads, For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I see the...
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Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" tells the story of two young lovers who lived together in a "kingdom by the sea." Their love was "a love that was more than love." For that reason (in the...
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Annabel Lee
You stated that your theme was that their love transcends death. Though the lovers were young when Annabel Lee died, his love for her has lived on past her death. Alliteration is an important...
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
Similarities 1. Both poems are ballads. They contain a "sing-song" quality to them and they tell a story. 2. Because of the sing-song quality, both are pleasing to the ear 3. Both are stories of...
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The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe often criticized fellow writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow because of what he called "the heresy of the didactic." Simply put, he disliked how Longfellow's work skimmed the surface...
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Annabel Lee
The facts about Annabel Lee and her relationship with the speaker are related in this poem like a fairy tale. The speaker begins the poem by speaking of a "kingdom by the sea" many years ago which...
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Annabel Lee
The speaker begins the poem by recalling a time many years ago (like the beginning of a fairy tale) in a kingdom by the sea where he an a maiden named Annabel Lee lived and were in love. Although...
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Annabel Lee
The speaker indicates that Annabel died because the angels were jealous, so they brought her a cold wind from the sea to take her up to Heaven with them. Annabel Lee most likely died of pneumonia...
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Annabel Lee
Dark Romanticism is characterised by a focus on the psychological darkness within man's soul. Its essential ingredients are normally based around highlighting the evil that lies at the very core of...
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Annabel Lee
In the third stanza there is a reference to Annabel Lee’s “high-born kinsmen,” which is a reference to her wealth. In those days, it was not uncommon for even a wealthy person to succumb to...
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Annabel Lee
Romanticism was a literary movement that lasted from approximately 1789 to 1832. Two important features of Romanticism were: *the idea that an individual's feelings were more...
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Annabel Lee
"Annabel Lee" is a narrative poem. It can also be classified as a ballad. The first four lines of the six-line first stanza are written in the traditional ballad stanza form.The language, too, is...
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Annabel Lee
That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee... Interestingly, the poem “Annabel Lee” was published after the death of Poe. Appropriately, it was his last poem. This...
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Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" in 1849 to memorialize his wife, Virgina, after her death. (On a side note, Poe's most popular poem during his lifetime, "The Raven," was written during his...
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Annabel Lee
Just like measuring objects in meters and feet, poetry has its own brand of measurement called metrical feet. A metrical foot consists of a specific number of accented and unaccented syllables....
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Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” ranks as one of the saddest, love poems in literature. This was one of the last poems that Poe wrote and was even published after his death. His personal...
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Annabel Lee
The main character in the poem is the speaker. He is responding to the death of his love, Annabel Lee. Annabel Lee is another character, but she is dead. She died when a breeze from the sea...
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Annabel Lee
The setting is the time and place of the action of a story. This narrative poem has a distinct setting. The poem establishes part of the setting in the first lines. It was many and many a year...
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Annabel Lee
Poet Edgar Allan Poe penned "Annabel Lee" in 1849, referring to the poem (which was most likely inspired by his deceased wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe) as a ballad; despite this claim, the iconic...
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Annabel Lee
The unnamed narrator (presumably author Edgar Allan Poe himself) never seems to distance himself from his late love in the famous poem "Annabel Lee." It becomes obvious that looking about over...
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Annabel Lee
There is no doubt that the narrator of "Annabel Lee" (presumably author Edgar Allan Poe himself) is suffering extreme heartache over the death of his love. His all-consuming sadness is not...
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Annabel Lee
There are plenty of aspects of this tremendous poem that you could talk about, but you might like to think about the way in which the connection between the speaker and Annabel Lee is described...
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Annabel Lee
I am not sure if Poe's statement in "The Philosophy of Composition" is an example of the sexual objectification of women. Is Poe's statement that the death of a beautiful woman is "the most...
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Poetry
A theme is a dominating influence in literature whether it is in a novel or in poetry. It often conveys universal ideas which revolve around life and how it affects actions in general. It can be...
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Annabel Lee
Although Edgar Allan Poe may not have utilized as many literary devices in "Annabel Lee" as he did in his longer poems such as "The Raven" and "The Bells," there are still many too be found....
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Annabel Lee
In Poe's "Annabel Lee," the author uses a great deal of figurative language. Figurative language is often used in poetry. Figurative language, by definition, is not to be taken literally. There are...
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Annabel Lee
This poem written by Edgar Allan Poe is a tale of love shared by two children "many and many a year ago,/In a kingdom by the sea". In it, the speaker is telling of his one true love, Annabel Lee,...
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Annabel Lee
While the losses in Poe's life through the deaths of beautiful beloved women--his mother, his friend's idolized mother, his young wife--is reflected in his poetry--just as his years living in...
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Annabel Lee
We do not know exactly how Annabel Lee died in this poem. We are told two things that might be relevant. First, we are told that a cold wind blew from a cloud and that was (it is implied) what...
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Annabel Lee
Mrs. Kathleen Drover has returned to London from her house in the country in order to pick up some things from the house that she and her husband abandoned because of the bombing of London by the...
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Annabel Lee
The "winged seraphs" are angels in heaven who are jealous of the love that the author shares with Annabel Lee: But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—...
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Annabel Lee
In my opinion, the main theme of this poem is loss. The speaker has lost the love of his life and is going to be sad for the rest of his life. I think that there are not a lot of ups and downs in...
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Annabel Lee
Many literary sound devices contribute to the hauntingly melodic effect of "Annabel Lee." In addition to those noted in the other responses, Poe uses repetition, euphony, anaphora, and a lilting...
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Annabel Lee
I am using the definition of consonance that says that it is when you use the same consonant sound in a bunch of words (more or less in a row). The sound does not have to be at the start of the...
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Annabel Lee
Although the poem describes a very strong love between the poet and Annabel Lee, not many "happy incidents" are mentioned. The most I can find is: lines 5-6: And this maiden she lived with no...
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Annabel Lee
The subject of the poem "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe is the death of the narrator's love, Annabel Lee. The narrator tells us about how the two of them were childhood sweethearts who loved...
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Annabel Lee
A simile is a figure of speech, a literary device which adds emphasis, gives visual clarity and makes a comparison between things that would not normally or literally be compared. It is distinct...
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Annabel Lee
On a broader scope, the poem also deals with social injustice and the denial of basic rights to certain underprivileged people. The abolition of slavery in the South was still a few years away, so...
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Annabel Lee
Although Edgar Allan Poe's memorable poem "Annabel Lee" does not immediately come to mind in a gothic sense, it does contain virtually all of the elements expected of that style. In literature, the...
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Annabel Lee
When taken out of a natural context, I have a tendency to believe that most love poems "sound" a bit on the obsessive side. Due to this, it is a difficult to read if this is the exact intent of...
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Annabel Lee
"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...