Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee
Pages: 11
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Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee Everyone dreams of their one true love, the love that they can't live without. The
one person who makes their life whole and/or complete and the person who makes them feel like no matter how
bad things get everything will be okay as long as they have each other. In the poem Annabel Lee Edger Allen Poe
writes of such a love, a love so deep that even the "the angels not half as happy in heaven went envying her and
me." Poe's use of a combination of anapestic and iambic meter, along with a poetic diction that creates a fairy tale
like realm between he and his love makes the readers of Annabel lee see and image of enduring love and creates
a poetic masterpiece.
Poe opens the poem letting his readers know that what he is about to tell you happened "many and many a year
ago", which makes one wonder how well he could remember something that happened such a long time ago. In
the second line Poe goes on to state that what happened occurred in "a kingdom by the sea". When putting the
first and second lines together it reminds one of the classic fairy tales opening "Once upon a time in a faraway
land", which very well could suggest that maybe Poe is embellishing the truth in order to capture the readers'
attention and create an entertaining and touching poem. Poe cont...