Blackout Poem – “Annabel Lee”

In the poem, “Annabel Lee”, by Edgar Allen Poe is narrated by the author who featured in the poem as young man who describes himself as a ‘child.’ The author falls in love with a woman named Annabel Lee, and they live in a kingdom by the sea, and the narrator and Annabel Lee were very happy and in love in fact their love for each other is so intense that the seraphim in Heaven (high ranking angels) became jealous of them and send freezing wind to murder Annabel Lee that chilled her to death. The narrator is devastated over the death of his Annabel Lee and he believes that his soul is inseparable from Annabel Lee’s, so every night he sleeps next to her in her tomb waiting until the time to join her. The main theme would be eternal love because even when the death of Annabel Lee challenged their relationship the author never gave up on her. The poem repeats the verse, “  In this kingdom by the sea”, and many more (repetition). The verse, “never beams, without bringing me my dreams” (35), is an example of euphony in the poem. The poem is also heavy in rhyme which make it have a musical component, like chilling/killing, beams/dreams, and sea/lee/me. Alliteration in evident in the poem because it uses the same sound or letter in the beginning of the word, like “  Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride” (40), and “the sounding sea” (42). 

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