What
distinguishes the Dark Romantics such asfrom the mainstream Romantics is the vision of the more
threatening aspect of the preternatural world that influences man's life. Because of this
element, there is a suspicion and sometimes a feeling of paranoia that enters a person's mind
and soul. Such distrust and paranoia characterize the speaker of " ." In the second
through the fifth stanzas of this poem, the speaker fears that angels, demons, and her kinsmen
all wish to prevent him from being with his beloved. With a haunting tone and a singleness of
thought in these verses, there is an other worldliness to the tale of the speaker's lost love
who rests eternally by the sea. The speaker reiterates his paranoiac thoughts as he says that he
and Annabel loved with "a love that the winged seraphs of heaven / Coveted her and
me." Further, he states his suspicions of Annabel's "highborn kinsmen" who come
to entomb her body as desiring to take her "away from [him]."...
Monday 27 October 2008
Describe the Dark Romanticism presented in Annabel Lee?
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