Analysis of Poetry Annabel Lee by Edgar

Allan Poe

NAME :

Erick Hadi Wijaya

( Intrinsic – Theme, Point of View, Symbol, Taste, and Imagery )

Lia Anggraeni ( External and Intrinsic - Expressive and Hyperbole )

Fina Anggriani ( Intrinsic – Connotations, Personification, and Metaphor )

Martina Dwi Palupi ( Intrinsic –Rhyme, Idiom and Alliteration )

YEAR 2019/2020
1. Intrinsic Analysis of Annabel Lee

a. Theme

Romance of young love cut short by tragedy ( Annabel Lee ).

b. Taste

The taste depicted in Annabel Lee's poem are love, sadness, and jealousy
because it is seen from several lines.

 Describing love in the stanza 2 line 3 and 4 "But we loved it with a love that was
more than love - I and my Annabel Lee -".
 Describing sadness in the stanza 6 line 5 “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by
the side”.
 Describing jealousy in the stanza 4 line 1 and 2 “The angels, not half so happy in
Heaven, Went envying her and me—”.

c. Meaning

 Connotations

1. “To shut her up in a sepulcher”

“To shut her up” is not the real meaning that means make her just silent
but make her died or bury in a sepulcher.
2. “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes”
“The bright eyes” is not the real meaning that means the eyes emit the
light but it means the beautiful eyes.
 Metaphor
1. “But we loved with a love that was more than love”
It shows us that their love is extraordinary, its different with another love,
they talk about love with different degree.
2. “But our love was stronger by far than the love”
 They have unconditionally love even problems come their love will still
strong.
3. “Of those who were older than we”
It talks about a love that no less than another love.

 Personification
1. “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabel”
As we know a wind doesn’t chilling people.

 Hyperbole

1. “But our love it was stronger by far than the love”

This line is said to be hyperbole because it shows that stronger their love
is more than ordinary love.

2. “But we loved with a love that was more than love”

This line is said to be hyperbole because it shows that their love is more
than ordinary love.

 Rhyme

1. For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams.

The line above has the same rhyme in the words beams and dreams.
2. And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes.
The line above has the same rhyme in the words rise and eyes.
3. And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side.
The line above has the same rhyme in the words tide and side.
4. In her spectacular there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea.
The line above has the same rhyme because also has the same word.

 Alliteration

1. It was many and many years ago.

 its called by alliteration because there is the same consonant in front of the
letter many [m] - it explains that it happened a long time ago,
2. I was child and she was child.
There is the same consonant in the word was and child [w][ch] - it
shows us when they were young, it has to do with time.
3. Of my darling – my darling – my life and my bride.
I find the same consonant in front of letter of four words [m] - this is
showing us that the have a special relations and they having each other
 Idiom
1. “Winged seraphs of heaven”
This is strengthening that angel has a wing.
2. “Not half sp happy in heaven”
As we know that happiness is always found in heaven, but this show us
that the are not too happy even they are in heaven.
3. “And the star never rise, but I feel the bright eyes”
Even there is no starlight her eyes is still bright it explains that she was
still happy.

d. Point of View

The point of view of the poem is the first person perspective because almost all
of Annabel Lee's poems use first-person pronouns. For example in stanza 2 line 1
“I was a child and she was a child” and line 4 ” I was a child and she was a child” and
also use “my”.

e. Symbol

The poetry using the symbol to signify ideas and qualities, giving them
symbolic meanings that are different from the literal meaning.

 “The sea” the symbol of freedom and loneliness and also “The sea” describe the
symbol of darkness in the others stanza 5 and line 5.
  “Moon” and “The star” both symbolizes the speaker’s lover and her stunning
beauty.

 “The wind” Describe the symbol of misery or disaster. It’s show in the stanza 3
line 3 and the stanza 4 line 5.

 “Sepulchre”

Sepulchre is a symbol of confinement.

 “Angels”

Angels symbolize virtue. The angels are supernatural beings or spirits who
guide people to do good deed

 “Annabel Lee”

Annabel Lee represents a women’s beauty and love.

d. Imagery

 Stanza 1

Line 2 : “In a kingdom by the sea,” This visualizes that there is a

kingdom located near the sea.
 Stanza 2

Line 1 : “I was a child and she was a child” This visualizes when both
of the narrator and Annabel Lee were still children.

Line 2 :  “In a kingdom by the sea,” This visualizes that there is a

kingdom located near the sea.

 Stanza 3

Lines 2 and 8 : “In a kingdom by the sea,” This visualizes that there is a
kingdom located near the sea.
 Line 3 : “A wind blew out of a could, chilling” This proves that there is
a movement of a wind that blew up a cloud.

Line 4 : “My beautiful Annabel Lee” This visualizes that Annabel Lee
has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s opinion.

Line 5 : “So that her highborn kinsman came” This proves that there is
a movement from the kinsman.

Line 6 : “And bore her away form me” This proves that there is a
movement when the kinsman came and took Annabel Lee.

Line 7 : “To shut her up in a sepulcher” This proves after the kinsman
came and took Annabel Lee, he placed her in a sepulcher.

 Stanza 4

Line 4 : “In a kingdom by the sea,” This visualizes that there is a

kingdom located near the sea.

Line 5 : “That the wind came out of the cloud by night” This proves
that there is a movement of a wind that came out from a
cloud at night.

Line 6 : “Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” This provide that there
is a movement of the wind that chilling and killing Annabel
Lee.

 Stanza 5

Line 4 : ”And neither the angels in Heaven above” This visualizes that
above from the earth there is a heaven filled with the angles.

Line 5 : “Nor the demons down under the sea” This visualizes that in
under the sea there are demons living in the darkness.
 Line 7 : “Of the beautiful Annabel Lee” This visualize that Annabel
Lee has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s
opinion.

 Stanza 6

Line 2 and 4 : “Of the beautiful Annabel Lee” This visualize that Annabel
Lee has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s
opinion.

Line 3 : “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes” This
visualize that the narrator feels there are bright eyes of
Annabel Lee although she has already dead.

Line 5 : “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side” This prove
that there is a movement of the narrator who’s lie down by the
side of his lovely Annabel Lee, because of Annabel Lee has
already been buried in sepulcher, so the narrator is lie down
near the sepulcher.

Line 7 : “In her sepulcher there by the sea” This visualize that the
sepulchre’s location is near the sea.

Line 8 : “In her tomb by the sounding sea” This proves that there is a
sound of a sea.

2. Expressive Analysis of Poem Annabel Lee

Expressive criticism focuses on the artists emotion. It is well known among poets,
that poetry is based on emotion. Expressive criticism describes poetry as an expression,
as an over-flow of a poet’s feelings. Expressive theorists believe that individuality is
something that must be told in literary work. They believe in going above and beyond the
objective theorists idea that a poet’s job as a poet is to stray away from personality.
 Expressive writing has really developed since it was first created. It is not only the
main writing style of poetry, but it is now used in treatments, to help clients better
understand their own emotions. The reason for this, is when something is expressive, it
cannot be judged as fiercely as somewhat that is factual. Critics cannot have an
influential opinion about how somebody feels.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" in May 1849, a few months before his
death, and it first appeared in The Southern Literary Messenger posthumously in
November 1849. Although the poem may refer to a number of women in Poe's life, most
acknowledge it 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. The work returns to
Poe's frequent fixation with the Romantic image of a beautiful woman who has died too
suddenly in the flush of youth. As indicated more thoroughly in his short story "The Oval
Portrait," Poe often associated death with the freezing and capturing of beauty, and many
of his heroines reach the pinnacle of loveliness on their deathbed, as with Ligeia of the
eponymous story.

The poem is narrated by a young man who describes himself as a 'child.' The man
falls in love with a young woman named Annabel Lee. They live in a kingdom by the
sea. The narrator and Annabel Lee are very happy and very in love. Their love for each
other is so intense, in fact, that the seraphim in Heaven (angels) become jealous and
murder Annabel Lee, by sending a wind that chills her to death. The narrator is
devastated but does not give up on their love. He believes that his soul is inseparable
from Annabel Lee's. Every night he dreams of her and sleeps next to her in her tomb.

Bibliography

1. https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/annabel-lee-by-edgar-allan-poe
2. http://solankipintu.blogspot.com/2015/10/mimetic-criticism-pragmatic-criticism.html?
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3. https://www.gradesaver.com/poes-poetry/study-guide/summary-annabel-lee
 Attacment

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 wingèd 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 kinsmen 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.