Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | Line by Line Explanation, Summary, Analysis
Annabel Lee is the last complete poem by Edgar Allan Poe written a few months before he died in 1849. The poem was posthumously published in The Southern Literary Messenger in November 1849. The poem is believed to be in memory of Virginia Clemm, Poe's wife who married him at the age of thirteen and who died in 1847 before she turned twenty-five. Poe believed that death was a kind of rebirth and a sublimation of the soul and that it helped people find a "supernal beauty" in another world. He also believed that the terror and ugliness of death was another form of eternal beauty that transcended time and space. This poem too concerns the death of a young woman (the titular Annabel Lee) and the narrator’s belief that her death is a result of the jealousy the angels feel for the love the couple shares.
Poe famously wrote, “The death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world”. He also said the lips best suited for such a topic were those of a bereaved lover. The speaker of the poem is an unnamed young man. It is safe to say that Poe is the speaker grieving his wife's death. The poem specifically mentions the youth of Annabel Lee, and it celebrates child-like emotions in a way consistent with the ideals of the Romantic era. The poem may remind the readers of the Lucy poems by William Wordsworth.
Unlike his other poem, The Raven, in which the speaker believes he will "nevermore" be reunited with his love, "Annabel Lee" says the two lovers will be together again, as not even demons "can ever dissever" their souls.
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