😎 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Summary - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Analysis

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Summary - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Analysis
1809 - 1849
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 her sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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[@carmenvega8495]

It is a beautiful poem, like all of Poe's poems are beautiful. Poe married his teenage cousin who died of consumption, at an early age. Perhaps she was the inspiration for this poem. The eternal Annabel Lee.

[@kristianperezmcdougall1641]

Beautiful! Thanks so much

[@Barbarossa-heir]

Oh my God!! Oh my God !
Annabelle Lee is my favorite poem of Poe's ...
I pressed directly to cry like always did hearing " Annabelle Lee " ..
I sound weird, doesn't I?
The sea metaphors are always emotional 😢 😭

[@veroniquebernier2461]

I had not read it for a long time, thank you.

[@normabuccianti2681]

Beautiful rendition…Thank you!

[@iswearenglish]

Many thanks!

[@LandoCalani404]

Interesting poem indeed. The only word I couldn't quite wrap my mind around was "night-tide".

[@iswearenglish]

night tide ----- night time

[@manjirabanerjee7169]

Thank you Sir for reciting and elucidating my fav poem by Poe ; am scared of him Sometimes though. 😊 Such a beautiful poem this is - poignant ,intense ,passionate yet dark.Love its musicality too.

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

My independent research indicates that Edgar Allan Poe was not the author of either "Annabel Lee" or "The Raven." He obtained copies of both from Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier, in early 1842. He falsely claimed authorship of "The Raven" when Mathew published it in "American Review" in 1845, but he never published "Annabel Lee" in his lifetime, despite having had a copy of it for so many years.