😎 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.
/ iswearenglish
/ iswearenglish
/ iswearenglish
#iswearenglish #AnabelLee #EdgarAlanPoe
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @iswearenglish
Пікірлер: 12
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.
Beautiful! Thanks so much
THANK YOU for the rendition and analysis of this enchanting poem .It transports us to the world of the supernatural with its lovely rocking cadence - I think her highborn kinsman is a dead relatuve who is taking her to the land of the dead Perhaps the family vault , My favourite lines : The moon never beams without bringing me dreams . .. the bright eyes . (stars). night - tide .. .my life and my bride. .. the sounding sea ." ♡ ❤♡♡
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 😢 😭
I had not read it for a long time, thank you.
Beautiful rendition…Thank you!
@iswearenglish
3 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
"And the stars never rise , but I feel the bright eyes. .In her tomb by the sounding sea."🌊I can imagine him thinking of his love in her cavernous tomb (black despair)? Her last destination (dernière demeure ?) with her eyes (scintillating stars) and illuminating the darkness of the tomb; sparkling scented candles suffusing the darkness with warm light. Perhaps the tomb is no longer cold but cosy with this charming tête-à-tête tryst - the word for sad in French is "triste"; it (almost) rhymes with tryst- triste being long , tryst short....and the lady 's soft limpid starry- night bedroom-tomb eyes!🪻🌌🟦🌙⬛️🌜🟣🟦🔳🟪🌊🔵🔶️🌊🔸️🌕
Interesting poem indeed. The only word I couldn't quite wrap my mind around was "night-tide".
@iswearenglish
3 ай бұрын
night tide ----- night time
@manjirabanerjee7169
3 ай бұрын
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.
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.