Annabel Lee Analysis

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.

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Edgar Allen Poe stole my poem My granddaddy wrote that when he was 14 and that meanie pants stole it and killed him. how do u feel now :(

| Posted on 2010-02-08 | by a guest

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ATTENTION: ARGUING OVER A POEM IS COMPLETELY STUPID!BESIDES YOU ALL NEED TO LEARN TO x ALSO LIKE 3/23/09

| Posted on 2010-01-28 | by a guest

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thanx everybody this made my literary essay a lot easier haha

| Posted on 2010-01-26 | by a guest

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I agree that this poem is about his wife virginia. i think so because in his life , his wife died. And he ws always talking about them being inseprable no matter what. This poem describes everything about his wife. Therefore, if you take all the little clues and hints poe has given , you can see that this poem IS in fact about his wife. Thats why we have infrencing skills.

| Posted on 2010-01-20 | by a guest

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I really do agree that this is about his wife Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. Why else would there be the significant reference to the wind chilling Annabel, or the "bride" part at the end, when he never mentioned anything about marriage in the poem itself? (eerily, Virginia died on the same date but different year of the same disease as Poe's mother!)

| Posted on 2010-01-05 | by a guest

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The poem also shows her death being "wind blew out of a cloud" which can show the sickness of tuberculosis cause the sickness/illness over came her so in his mind this might also show why there is a shift in the poem to a more angry tone. The angry toward the sickness and maybe the family for taking her from him.

| Posted on 2009-12-16 | by a guest

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Annabel is a symbol for britney spears, and we all need to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE... the speaker in this poem is a retarded sack of ---- that is trying to exploint that which he sees as beautiful (BEACUSE BRITNEY IS), but we need to let her be free...
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE

| Posted on 2009-12-10 | by a guest

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Why is the idea that Annabel Lee is a ship so ridiculous? He could be using a ship as a metaphor to represent his wife. Notice how in the first stanza he actually says ANNABEL LEE in all capital letters. Does no one else find this significant?

| Posted on 2009-12-09 | by a guest

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This poem was actually not written for his wife virgnia, but for his childhood sweetheart, whom he was engaged to marry. He died before they got married. The poem is "happy" or "sad". poe was bipolar and this just really shows his take on love. its morbid and its creepy, but at the same time sad and romantic. its very in key with the rest of his writings.

| Posted on 2009-11-24 | by a guest

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I definately agree with 10-29, this is for sure about a girl he very muched loved.... not a ship...

| Posted on 2009-11-19 | by a guest

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The meaning of this poem is very controseptive. Poe has an insane twist to this poem meaning for madness and depression, but also obssesion of the natural mind. Sadness can drive you mad while obsession can bring in those certain tears.

| Posted on 2009-11-12 | by a guest

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I think this poem is a mix between obsessive and madness. in the beginning, it seems to be a sweet love story, but it then darkens, and Poe says some pretty demented and outlandish things. The really remarkable thing, I think, is that Poe's poem can be said to mean a variety of things, and all are true. Personally, I would like to think that Poe wasn't insane, because, (if you haven't read his other works, you should) it would be a waste of his brillant mind. If this is a poem to send out his grief over his wife, then I think it is fine.

| Posted on 2009-11-12 | by a guest

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Can the person who wrote the paper on Annabel Lee please post the paper. I need the meaning of the poem for a poetry reciting I'm doing in class. This is a big part of my grade. Please Help Me!

| Posted on 2009-11-10 | by a guest

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I think all answers are right answers but on things that I can't get right is this, why didn't he just name the poem after his wife, Virginia,why Annabel Lee?

| Posted on 2009-11-10 | by a guest

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the person who posted on 4-16-09 is right this is why; When we are fighting we make life cry
Whether its for life or death no matter why
When we are fighting its not life nor death everything just dies. I personally think it is about a tornado and i'm in 7th grade.

| Posted on 2009-11-02 | by a guest

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Whoever posted 7-19-09 is a damn idiot. A SHIP?!?! The poem is written about his love for his wife who died. Why the hell would he be writing about a ship??? Especially since this was the very last poem he wrote. I've been researching this poem and the life of Poe for 3 weeks for a poetry presentation for a college English 2 class.

| Posted on 2009-10-29 | by a guest

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I LOVE THIS POEM. The obvious reason for Poe writing it would be because of his great loss. The death of his wife Virginia. Poe did suffer a lot during his lifetime, and maybe he just write these poems to express his feelings.
--Sasha was here ;D

| Posted on 2009-10-28 | by a guest

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Actually your all right... An analysis of a poem is your opinion.. There is no right or wrong answer. But I believe it it about a lost love, in a very creepy way..

| Posted on 2009-10-28 | by a guest

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Actually your all right... An analysis of a poem is your opinion.. There is no right or wrong answer. But I believe it it about a lost love, in a very creepy way..

| Posted on 2009-10-28 | by a guest

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This poem is quite lovely. It talks about the memories of him thinking he would never be separated from his love, but it ends with her leaving him to go to a place where he could never reach. It's like chasing after something you could never touch or feel. that dark feeling of being so desperate and lonely.

| Posted on 2009-10-27 | by a guest

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The true story of Annabel Lee and The speaker in the poem, Edgar Allan Poe is that are both cousins and lovers. They married each other at very young age. The real name of "Annabel lee" was Virginia Clemm. Annebel died in her twenties because of the tuberculosis. And in the poem, the written cause of her death is the wind. Everyone is against the love story of Edgar and Annabel for the reason that they are cousins. But still they got married. And when Annebel died, her debris were taken by her relatives away from Edgar, But because of love, Edgar followed his wife at her tomb. "Annabel Lee" was published two days after Poe's death in 1898.

| Posted on 2009-10-19 | by a guest

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I tend to agree with whoever posted on 3/23/09, with the point that Poe was a very literal writer in his shorter poems. As such this poem is more creepy then sweet, with an absolute inference that he sleeps with the body of his "bride" night after night. Necrophilia, not so sure, but the sleeping part alone is a very Poe-esque macabre. However, I do tend to consider their love "real," but the degree to which the speaker overstates it does imply something darker.

| Posted on 2009-10-11 | by a guest

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I tend to agree with whoever posted on 3/23/09, with the point that Poe was a very literal writer in his shorter poems. As such this poem is more creepy then sweet, with an absolute inference that he sleeps with the body of his "bride" night after night. Necrophilia, not so sure, but the sleeping part alone is a very Poe-esque macabre. However, I do tend to consider their love "real," but the degree to which the speaker overstates it does imply something darker.

| Posted on 2009-10-11 | by a guest

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One of the best ... my guy mailed me this aftr a fight ... probably dats y its soundid all the more beautiful... i cn jst wish such love exist..
Mrirani

| Posted on 2009-10-10 | by a guest

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This poem is beautiful yet sad. It proves that love is so strong between a coulpe, even if one lover is dead

| Posted on 2009-09-22 | by a guest

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Everybody here seems to be seeing only the obvious. But if you look deeper, I think "Anabelle Lee" is a metaphor for a ship and this poem is actually talking about a shipwreck.

| Posted on 2009-07-19 | by a guest

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This is definitely about his young wife Virginia, who died very soon in her life.

| Posted on 2009-07-12 | by a guest

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If you are reading this a virus has been downloaded to your computer and will take effect in 3-4 days. I am just kidding. Or Am I.

| Posted on 2009-06-11 | by a guest

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If you are reading this a virus has been downloaded to your computer and will take effect in 3-4 days. I am just kidding. Or Am I.

| Posted on 2009-06-11 | by a guest

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Annabel lee has many sound devices: x hyperbole when saying that the angels in heaven were jelous of them... i mean come on!

| Posted on 2009-05-10 | by a guest

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I have used this beautiful poem to teach expressive reading for 45 years. It is easy to select key concepts to emphasize with your voice along with tonal inflections. Read it over and over, and then underline the most expressive concepts, adding pauses, facial expressions etc.
It was extremely effective with my 9th Grade English students. Well read, it could even bring tears to the
eyes of boy jocks.
Dr. Robert Conifer, Colo

| Posted on 2009-05-07 | by a guest

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this poem has so much meaning and perfectly describes the meaning of love. poe writes of a beautiful woman dying in many of his poems soley because the death of his beatiful, yopung, virgin wife, virginia.
-ashley nicole phillips

| Posted on 2009-04-29 | by a guest

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he is writing about his wife who was also his cousin named virginia. the poem was dedicated to her. u can look it up on wikipedia.

| Posted on 2009-04-22 | by a guest

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I am only in 7th grade and im soooo confused. I am not sayon any one is wrong our right. You would have to know Poe and. its deffinatly not something to foght about... think wat you think....

| Posted on 2009-04-16 | by a guest

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hii
i found alought of your opinions to be quite interesting, and i must say they have helped me out imensly.However, what is with the continual slander doesnt anyone apretiate a good opinion (thats why they call it criticism). there is no wright and wrong in this poem, and the facts quite franctly are always different. so if you cant handle the critics dont read it, but as for the rest of you there where some intersting perspectives.

| Posted on 2009-04-09 | by a guest

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For me, Annabel Lee is only a fiction, a work of art to inspire us that death cannot separate the lover and the beloved. Love for Edgar Allan Poe is boundless, just like a ring which symbolizes eternity.

| Posted on 2009-04-03 | by a guest

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For me, Annabel Lee is only a fiction, a work of art to inspire us that death cannot separate the lover and the beloved. Love for Edgar Allan Poe boundless, just like a ring which symbolizes eternity.

| Posted on 2009-04-03 | by a guest

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Annabel Lee was the last poem Poe ever wrote, and I think that he knew it was going to be his last work. Some people say that it is a dark poem, but I think that it is a beautiful poem - beautiful in that sad way. I think that Annabel Lee was his wife. Heck, I think all the women that he writes about are really his late wife, because he loved her so much that he was simply devestated about her death and kept on writing to cope. If you haven't read his other works, please, do so - they are all just as sadly beautiful and darkly sweet. And, they are terribly interesting as well.

| Posted on 2009-03-31 | by a guest

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The author Poe was apperantly adopted as a child, he married his second cousin who was 12 years younger than him, he dedicated this poem to her because she died of teburculosis this poemgives me a wierd vibe

| Posted on 2009-03-30 | by a guest

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To whomever said that Virginia died of Consumption and not tb... I would like to say that.. it's the same thing. Consumption is the word used a long time ago to name what we now call Tuberculosis.

| Posted on 2009-03-29 | by a guest