Edgar Allan Poe’s

“Annabel Lee”
Reported by: Hazel Marie Bien
 Title:
Annabel Lee

Author:
Edgar Allan Poe
About Publisher:
New York Tribune

Copyright Date:
October 9, 1849 (posthumously)
Edgar Allan Poe

Birthdate: January 19, 1809

Died: October 7, 1849

Spouse: Virginia (Clemm) Poe

Parents: Elizabeth Arnold Poe & David Poe, Jr.

Foster Parents: John & Frances Allan

Siblings: Rosalie & William

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 wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
Annabel Lee
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.
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.
 This expresses the thoughts
and emotions of the poet
Lyric Poetry telling through a story, This is
often contrasted with narrative
poetry and verse drama
 To the death of beautiful, beloved
Dedication lady. Most probably his cousin
turned wife; Virginia.
It enchants the reader
to the thought that true
love resides in the
soul and never dies.
 He spoke in past tense

He refers to Annabel
lee with much
Why? adoration

We may also note that

the consumption is
brought by wind
Literary Devices
● Allusions
● Assonance
● Imagery
● Personification
● Alliteration
● Symbolism
● Enjambment
Poetic Devices
Rhyme Scheme: Ballad Measure (abab/ abcb)
Internal Rhyme: is a rhyme within a line (ex. For the
moon never beams; without bringing me dreams)
Repetition: some lines have been repeated often to
emphasize
Refrain: same with repetition except it refers to
the distance of the lines.
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“I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud” by William
Wordsworth
Reported by: Hazel Marie Bien
 Title:
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Author:
William Wordsworth

About Book:
Poems in Two Volume

Copyright Date:
1807 (originally published)

1815 (revised version, now entitled

“Poems” by William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth

Birth: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England

Died: April 23, 1850

Spouse: Mary Hutchinson

Studied:

Hawkshead (grammar school)

St. John’s College, Cambridge (moved here by 1787)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
 This expresses the thoughts
and emotions of the poet
Lyric Poetry telling through a story, This is
often contrasted with narrative
poetry and verse drama.
Dedication To nature, and all the wonders it
has to offer.
Major Themes nature and human involvement
in natural beauty
Literary Devices
● Simile
● Personification
● Alliteration
● Assonance
● Consonance
● Metaphor
● Imagery
Poetic Devices
Rhyme Scheme: Sextilla (ababcc)
Iambic Tetrameter: four feet per line, each unstressed
syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
Parallelism: use of similar components in a sentence/
stanza
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 The Goth The Romantic

Edgar Allan William

vs.
Poe Wordsworth
 Annabel Lee I wandered lonely
vs. as a cloud

-Lyric Poetry -Lyric Poetry

-To his -Nature
deseased wife
-Ballade -Sextilla