The third
stanza provides the following crucial information: the youngwas of a higher social class that
the speaker. When her family gets wind of the fact that Annabel Lee is in love with the speaker,
they are unhappy. They are not going to let Annabel Lee marry beneath her social station.
Therefore, they arrive and take her away from the speaker, separating the two lovers:
So that her highborn kinsmen cameAnd bore
her away from meAs a result, Annabel dies of a broken
heart.The romantic love between the two young people is thus pitted against
the practical concerns of the older family members, who do not want their kin involved with
someone whoin their eyesis the wrong kind of person. The poem, told from the speaker's point of
view, comes down strongly on the side of romantic love.The speaker, who
spends...
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