In the poem
"," the highborn kinsmen are Annabel Lee's relativesprobably her father and her
brothers, since it normally would be close relations who take a dead body away for burial in a
sepulchre. Because the speaker refers to them as "highborn," he probably is of a lower
status than they are. This suggests his less exalted status may have caused problems for the two
lovers.
Whoever they are exactly, these relatives, along with the chill wind
the jealous angels sent, represent an obstacle between Annabel and the speaker. They took her
away from him, just as the chill wind didas the speaker says, they "bore her away from
me." They don't seem to acknowledge that her lover has any rights of access to her or any
reason to mourn her.
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