Edgar Allen Poe’s Tribute

The poem Annabel lee side by Edgar Allen Poe is written to tell the story of the vocalizers greatest issue. The speaker and Annabel Lee loved each early(a) with a love that was more than love until she fell ill and died (9). The speaker blames the angels for killing his darling and proves his love for her by attending her graveside every day for the rest of his life.One way the speaker demonstrates his love is by describing their business firm (the setting of the poem) as a kingdom by the sea (2).This means the speaker sees himself as royalty because the love he and Annabel Lee share makes him so incredibly wealthy and powerful. This power and wealth was so great, in fact, that heaven envy the love about which Edgar Allen Poe wrote (10). The angels were jealous of this love being shared on earth, which was apparently more wonderful than anything they had experienced in heaven as angels. The use of the word coveted implies a darker meaning.This was not the simple jealousy of a teenage girl. The angels were committing a sin, breaking one of the commandments of their godly Master by coveting the love between two of His children. Finally, the speakers grief at her death further implies the discernment and strength of their love. It is logical that the great the love, the greater the grief the inverse is also true the greater the grief, the greater the love.Instead of merely being laid to rest in a coffin or a grave, death shut her up in a sepulcher there by the sea (19, 40). sepulture brings such dark connotations that we can almost see the speakershrouded in black after her death, mourning as deeply as the seanext to her tomb.Edgar Allen Poe contributed to the extremity of the poem by using a tone of reverence and pride. This is not some silly poem about puppy love.The love shared by Annabel Lee and the speaker was serious, and seems to be one we can only refer to with a sense of sobriety and admiration. In edge 28, the speaker refers to his pride by c omparing himself to those older and wiser, saying that hehad experienced a love that was stronger by far than anything those older and wiser had experienced. The