Friday 31 December 2010

What lines inform you of Annabel's death in "Annabel Lee"?

I would say
that the tragic underpinnings of "" are revealed gradually and incrementally within
the poem. For most of the first two Stanzas, Poe's narrator focuses upon their intense love for
one another, without yet giving any hint that one of the two is deceased. This begins to change
in the last two lines of the second stanza, which reveals that "the wing¨d seraphs of
Heaven / Coveted her and me." Thisintroduces the first hints of a much darker story still
to be revealed. It has not yet been stated unequivocally, but we've been given a suggestion as
to the tragic realities still to be divulged.

Then, in the next stanza, Poe
introduces Annabel's "highborn kinsmen" who come to take Annabel Lee away
from...

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