Saturday 1 May 2010

According to the speaker, why did Annabel die? Put the lines that support this answer in "Annabel Lee".

According to the speaker
of the poem,died because "the winged seraphs of Heaven / Coveted" the "love that
was more than love" felt by the speaker and Annabel Lee for one another (lines 9, 11-12).
This is particularly interesting, I think, because we typically conceive of angels as being pure
and virtuous. However, the speaker presents himself and Annabel as the innocent ones, saying,
"I was a child and she was a child," and
presents angels as covetous and really rather vicious (line 7). By suggesting that the angels
purposely sent a wind from a cloud to chill Annabel, killing her, in order to separate the
lovers, whose beautiful love they envied, the speaker paints these angels as rather cruel. They
weren't "half so happy in Heaven" as the speaker and Annabel were on earth, and so the
speaker...

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