In addition to the fairytale like rhyme and rhythm, there is a sense of the supernatural set up in this poem, with mention of an angelic and demonic order attempting to separate the two lovers. But the real power lies in the haunting romance, the thought of these two souls still together after all they’ve had to endure. (Spacey)
AnnabelleLee
I’ve mentioned AnnabelleLee before. She’s the prettiest of the girls here, I think, altho’ she’s older, and you can see the little lines around her eyes and her mouth. And she’s different, too, on account of she hardly ever sees any men, only one in fact, and him hardly ever. And she don’t come out much, don’t know where she spends her time. In fact, sometimes I wonder if she might be a ghost or somethin’, ’cause where is she at the rest of the time?
I read a poem that Miz Suze give me that was named with AnnabelleLee’s name, and it runs around and around in my head. It was by a man named Edgar Allen Poe, and here’s a part of it.
It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know, by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived without no other thought, than to love and be loved by me. — But the wind came out of a cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
—We loved with a love that more than a love — and the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams — of the beautiful Annabel Lee . . .
It makes me all shivery when I think of it. And I think that’s all I’ll say about AnnabelleLee.