GROUP 1 – MEMBERS: 10 – STIBITZ

Aquino, Keyshaun T. Montecillo, Elvira Joyce O.

Anonuevo, Alrianne A. Tudla, Colleen V.

Habana, Lianne Alheandra Claire F. Yuso, Matt Lukane L.

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Annabel Lee” was the last poem that the author Edgar Allan Poe composed.
It was published on October 9, 1849, two days after he died. The poem talks about
two lovers who love each other deeply that even the heavens above envy their love
and killed Annabel Lee. The persona was a lover of the young maiden Annabel Lee.
Many believe that Edgar Allan Poe is the persona because he wrote this poem in
memory of his young wife, who died in her early adulthood due to tuberculosis.

“Annabel Lee” is lyric poetry because it has a melodic quality, that expresses
the speaker’s emotions and feelings. The poem has a total of six stanzas. The first
two and fourth stanzas consist of 6 lines, sestet. The third and sixth stanza of the
poem consists of 8 lines, octave, and the fifth stanza consist of 7 lines. The poem
contains figures of speech. These are hyperbole because the line “And this maiden
she lived with no other thought” and “Than to love and be loved by me.” conveys
exaggeration, and personification because the line “That the wind came out of the
cloud by night,” “Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” is implying human
characteristics to the wind by saying the wind killed Annabel Lee, and paradox
because the line “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams” makes
no sense at first but if you review it, it makes sense.

The literary techniques employed in the poem are stanzas, mood, imagery,
and symbolism. There are also poetic sound devices in the poem. These are rhyme
schemes because the word at the end of the line rhymes with the others, alliteration
because in the line “The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,” the words half, happy,
and heaven all begin in the letter h, assonance because in the line “And the stars
never rise, but I feel the bright eyes” the words rise, I, bright, and eyes all sounds like
“I” and repetition because throughout the poem, the phrase “by the sea” kept
repeating.

The poem expresses the topic of lost love. The author presented undying love
with the persona and his lover Annabel Lee. The poem ends with the persona lying
by the side of Annabel Lee’s tomb looking up through the night sky with the
moonbeams that bring him memories of his Annabel Lee and the stars that reminded
him of the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee. “Love can transcend death” is
the message the author Edgar Allan Poe’s poem wanted to give us.