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! 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 her sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Poe has used various literary devices to enhance the intended impacts of his poem. The poem ends with the narrator going to the sea and looking up to the heavens. Ironically, Poe had to witness her dying of tuberculosis at a young age.
Until a fateful night, when a cold wind blew and chilled Annabel Lee to her demise. A sepulcher is a burial vault or tomb, like the one that is featured prominently in the final scenes of Romeo and Juliet. By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived… In the second stanza, Poe repeats the words child and love 3 times. In this kingdom by the sea. Be sure to notice the word he uses to describe this kinsman. However, his wife, Virginia, had died not long before its composition, and she was considerably younger than him.
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