There were such strong lyrics of love and lost that created a vivid image of the strong bond that love and love lost experiences. Poe speaks of how he knows it was the jealousy of the universe that they would have such an envious love, he had it taken, stolen in the "chilling" night. My favorite part of the poem is:
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;
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
The reason I love these lyrics of the poem are his ability to make me feel that he genuinely does not experience life the way he did with her. The moon will never represent the same thing as it once did, for not it brings him dreams of what he once had. He states the stars never rise and shine on him anymore, not the way they did before, he remembers Anabel lee and her bright eyes which were brighter to him then any set of stars in the universe. His devotion to her makes me feel the love and pain that he experienced as he lost her. His pain creates the idea of needing to blame the loss on someone, SOMETHING, and he chooses the heavens above, how having such love on earth made the heavens jealous as well as the demons below. Something that precious is not allowed to be enjoyed on earth, not on this realm.
Poe's words show not only his fascination with death as he does in other poems of his, but the magnitude of loss he experienced. He has the ability to show how strong love feels but how devastating losing love is too. That is impressive to convey two extremely strong emotions clearly in text.
Submitted by M
Submitted by M
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