READING REPORT OF POETRY

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

GROUP 7
1. Radita Yogi Oktaviani (33210038)
2. Kartika Panca Setiya Ningrum (33210091)
3. Kayla Rubby Denisya (33210105)
4. Reza Febriansyah (33210107)
5. Farhan Athalah (33210145)
6. Visent Di Viyo Vamiyona (33210156)

Bina Sarana Informatika University

Faculty of Communication and Languages
English Literature Deparment
2023/2024
Annabel Lee

Edgar Alan Poe

Annabel Lee

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 the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Element of Poetry (3)

1. SYMBOL
Symbolism is a use of concrete image, that can be a person, event, object to represent an
abstract idea. Atau, penggambaran yang menyiratkan suatu ide, pendapat, perasaan, dan lain-
lain.
2. ALLEGORY
Allegory is like a story or depiction of something to convey something such as moral lesson or a
hidden meaning.
Example : Countless sacrifice, dozens of medals, and still the flame goes on. Means, no matter
how many dies or prevail, the war goes on. War, is unending.
3. IMAGERY
 Imagery is descriptive languages used to appeal to a reader’s senses. Like using figurative
language to represent ideas, objects, or actions.

There are many imagery and symbolism in Annable Lee.

One as such is the imagery of love, coming from the phrase "no other thought Than to love and be
loved" stated by the heroine, Annabel Lee, who did not thought of anything else, demonstrates just how
overwhelming nature of this love.

There's also imagery of the poem's background setting, given by the phrase "Kingdom by the Sea" which
creates “a romantic, legendary quality for the narrative setting”

Elements of Poetry (4)

1. RHYME
Rhyme is close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of verse. One of two
or more words having this similarity in sound.
2. ALLITERATION
Aliiteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words within a phrase
or verse line.
Example : Peter piper picked a pack of picked peppers.
3. ASSONANCE
Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem
creating internal rhymes.
Example : If I bleat when I speak it’s because I just got fleeced. The sound “ē” on “bleat”,
“speak”, and “fleeced”.