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- Setting
- Annabel Lee takes place in a coastal area, with no specific indication of time other than the first line of the poem being "many and many a year ago." The word kingdom is also used adjacent with "by the sea", which sets up imagery of castles and other medieval architecture. but it does not necessarily mean that the story takes place in medieval times.
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- Speaker
- "But we loved with a love that was more than love-" (line 9)
- "But our love it was stronger by far than love of those who were older than we- of many far wiser than we" (line 27-29)
- "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, went envying her and me-" (lines 21-22)
- The narrator is the unnamed lover of Annabel Lee, and the poem is told entirely through their perspective. The first two stanzas display the passion the narrator has for Annabel Lee. After the death of his lover, the narrator is overcome with grief after the passing of his lover and begins a downward spiral where he begins to blame angels and Annabel Lee's relatives for taking her away from him. In addition, he brags that the love he and Annabel Lee shared was stronger than the love of others, which can be interpreted as the narrator becoming envious of the love which he had lost.
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- Symbolism
- The character Annabel Lee is widely considered to be symbolic of Edgar Allen Poe's late wife Virginia Poe. On lines 25-26 the quote "the wind came out of the cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee" is used to symbolize tuberculosis, the disease that killed Virginia Poe. The angels act as a barrier between the narrator and Annabel Lee, which ultimately fails because the narrator believes their love transcends death. The ocean represents the loneliness felt after the loss of Annabel Lee because they saw the ocean throughout their entire relationship, but it is now a place of grief due to Annabel Lee's sepulchre
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- Imagery
- Annabel Lee has a few unique images that portray feelings like loneliness and melancholy. The ocean is mentioned in every stanza and objects like the castle and Annabel's sepulcher are used to portray loneliness but still having some connection to a person. Angels are commonly used throughout the story and line 31: "Nor the demons down under the sea" has the singular use of demons in the entire poem.
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- Refrain
- In a kingdom by the sea
- the beautiful Annabel Lee
- *lub-dub, lub-dub*
- The refrain in the poem is the repetition of the phrases "In a kingdom by the sea" and "my Annabel Lee". These phrases are used for two main reasons, with the first being to set up a rhyme scheme using the words "sea", "Lee" and "me". The other reason is to create imagery that invokes feelings of loneliness. "In a kingdom by the sea" portrays an empty ocean with manmade structures nearby to show loneliness even though humans were her. "My Annabel Lee" shows the emptiness left in the narrator after the death of Annabel Lee, showing how much he truly loved her.
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- Theme
- "And neither the angel in Heaven above nor the demons down under the sea, can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee" (lines 30-33)
- The primary theme of Annabel Lee is love and death. Despite the fact that his lover died years ago, he still loves her just as much as he did when she was alive, as well as continuing to despair over her death. Their love continues postmortem and transcends the barrier between the living and the dead, in a love that was more than love.
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