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This week, we read a poem called “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. This poem is now one of my favorite poems of all time because of how unique and interesting the diction is and the story that’s lies within it. Edgar Allan Poe is not an unfamiliar author to us. We have previously read a thrilling horror story called, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The short story and the poem have some similarities but very big differences. The theme of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is horror. It is about a psychotic man who kills a man he loved, a man he adored. It is a very descriptive story about how he killed him and what he did with him afterwards. After killing the poor helpless man by putting a mattress over him and suffocating him to death, he cut apart each of his body parts and placed them under a loose floor board. The entire story takes place at night as well as “Annabel Lee.” But, the poem’s theme is about forbidden love. It was a love so great that seraphs coveted both of them. It was a love so great that the angels in heaven above envied their love. It was a love so great that nothing could tear them apart, except death. The speaker believes that the angels took his sweet, precious Annabel Lee from him. In class, we came to the understanding that he is going crazy. He is becoming psychotic similar to the man in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” At the end of the poem, the speaker is coming to the end of his life and is happy because he will be reunited with his beautiful Annabel Lee.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite authors because all of his stories and poems are so unique and always leave you with a question. They always have mystery hidden within the story. What is unique about some of Poe’s works is that they tend to include a psychotic character. I find them very interesting because of these traits and that is what separates him from other writers.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite authors because all of his stories and poems are so unique and always leave you with a question. They always have mystery hidden within the story. What is unique about some of Poe’s works is that they tend to include a psychotic character. I find them very interesting because of these traits and that is what separates him from other writers.