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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 / Boston)
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Annabel Lee - Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
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Form: Ballad
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Poe reveals that love is eternal, through life and death. This poem is very sad, one feel's Poe's harrowing pain. (Report) Reply
Breaks my heart. If I could cataorize this poem into comedy or tradegy i would put it into tragdey (Report) Reply
I was reading over this one and a copy from a book and they are a little different. I am glad i checked it was different from my source and would have been interresting (Report) Reply
This piece is forever. (Report) Reply
I have performed this work as a declamation when I was in high school, I won the championship. Thank you Sir Edgar Allan Poe.
As I play the main character in the poem... I felt his love and sorrow for his beloved Annabel Lee. I felt how much the separation costs both Annabel and the guy. How much the guy will sacrifice just to get where Annabel is. He will slay demons and such creatures, even sail the turbulent sea just to reach her. However, in the end, is still a tragedy for he lost his beloved to fate. I felt his broken soul trying as it might to deny what happened, but has nothing left for everything starts and ends with his love. (Report) Reply
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest literary figures of all times. I have been an avid fan of his work since middle school. I enjoy many of his short stories and poems, but Annabel Lee is a particular favorite of mine. It is a hauntingly beautiful, but sad poem in which Poe expresses his love and grief for his wife Virginia. It is in my opinion that this poem is a poetic masterpiece! (Report) Reply
I knew AEP as a writer of stories of suspense and mystery. Only now I came to know that he is a poet of a high calibre. This is a very delicate tragic romantic poem which is more pronounced in its mysticism towards the end. (Report) Reply
This is my absolute favorite poem ever...Poe is my inspration for writing...Poe is the best poet! ! ! ! His poems are so full of meaning. (Report) Reply
Cool song adaptation. http: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=y1kR101CcI8 (Report) Reply
haha i love edgar allen poe (Report) Reply
I like poems with some intoxication, like this poem of mine:
Drunken Sonnet
When in my lowest stock of wine and praise
I just content myself with this cheap beer
And wish in some hotel I with my raise
In yuletide, enjoying a good cheer;
But most I get from work that I contend,
Is reprimand from bossy chief and staff,
And scorn from lady love whom I pretend,
To have, when all I get from her is chaff;
And thinking of this love, this love of fools,
That no angel finds worthy of a cent,
Spit out, might I, in any of my drools,
And wonder how my glossy life have went;
.... Seeing your face, and hearing your tirade,
.... I might with bandits give my life to trade. (Report) Reply
My good friend Tracy R. Gibson (an accomplished stage actor) produced a video interpretation of this. I think it's phenomenal and capture's Poe's mania perfectly:
Annabel Lee Video Reading:
www.youtube.com/watch? v=PyU4wRTPHXQ (Report) Reply
If you want a very honest opinion, I love this poem. But I interpret the message as a man who loved this 'Annabel Lee' but with a 'love more than love' - an obsession. The narrator of the poem seems very possessive and obsessive of the girl, and seems sort of crazy if you ask me. Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his darker literature, so it wouldn't really be surprising if the theme of the poem isn't just an 'everlasting love'. (Report) Reply
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Everytime I read it, I cry. Can sadness be this beautiful? (Report) Reply
So the narrator's crazy, right? This is the beautiful love story of a crazy man, poignant because it's a sad story, but also because he's nuts and doesn't realize it. Right? (Report) Reply
A Symphony of Love and tears (Report) Reply
No matter how many times I read this poem of everlasting love, it still goes through me like dagger (Report) Reply
My dear mother introduced me to this wonderful poem. Never could thank her enough.
Stayed with me, all my life, as did her love (Report) Reply
Can ever, dissever my soul from the soul.............
Pathetically poignant, transmission of feeling
Goes through you like a poetic shock (Report) Reply