Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee

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“Annabel Lee,” a poem written by the esteemed Edgar Allen Poe. “ Annabel Lee,” demonstrates how love, if strong enough, can persist through death. It describes how the narrator and his beloved Annabel Lee are in love, in their house by the sea. Later in the poem, it describes how Annabel Lee is taken away from him by her kinsmen to be buried in a sepulchre, a type of tomb. He blames the angels in heaven of being jealous of their young love, saying that they meant to take her away from him. In the final stanza, he uses many different analogies, such as,” For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee…” He is saying that he is determined to be with her, through life and in death, as he promised when they got