" Annabel Lee " is the last complete poem written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, he explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who falls in love with Annabel Lee when they are young, has a love for her that is so strong that even the angels feel jealous. He retained his love even after his death. There is a debate about who, if any, is the inspiration for "Annabel Lee". Although many women have been advised, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the more credible candidates. Written in 1849, it was not published until shortly after Poe's death in the same year.
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Sinopsis
The poetry narrator describes his love for Annabel Lee, who started several years ago in a "kingdom by the sea". Although they were young, their love for each other burned with such intensity that the angels became jealous. For that reason the narrator believes that the seraphim caused his death. Even so, their love is strong enough to go beyond the tomb and the narrator believes that both of their souls are still in existence. Every night, she dreams about Annabel Lee and sees the brightness of her eyes in the stars. Every night he lay beside him in his tomb by the sea.
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Analysis
Like many other Poe poems including "The Raven", "Ulalume", and "To One in Paradise", "Annabel Lee" follows Poe's favorite theme: the death of a beautiful woman, called Poe "the most poetic topic in the world." Like a woman in many other works by Poe, she is beaten with sickness and young marriage. Poetry focuses on the unbelievably powerful ideal of love. In fact, the narrator's actions show that he not only loves Annabel Lee, but he adores her, something that only he can do after his death. The narrator admits that he and Annabel Lee are children when they fall in love, but his explanation that the angel who killed him in him is childish, indicating that he has failed adulthood ever since. His repetition of this statement indicates that he is trying to rationalize his excessive loss of feelings.
Unlike "The Raven", in which the narrator believes he will "never again" reunite with his love, "Annabel Lee" says the two will be together again, because even demons "can never unveil" their souls.
Poetic Structure
"Annabel Lee" consists of six stanzas, three with six lines, one with seven, and two with eight, with slightly different rhymes in each. Although not technically a ballad, Poe called it one. Like a ballad, this poem uses deliberate repetition of words and phrases to create heartbreaking effects. The name Annabel Lee emphasizes the letter "L", a tool often used in Poe's female characters such as "Eulalie", "Lenore", and "Ulalume".
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, Maryland has identified 11 versions of "Annabel Lee" published between 1849 and 1850. The greatest variation is in the last line:
- Original manuscript: In his grave on the ocean side
- Alternate version: In his grave in the audible oceans
Inspiration
It is not clear who the eponymous character of Annabel Lee is. Biographers and critics often advocate the use of Poe on the theme of "the death of a beautiful woman" from the loss of women repeatedly throughout her life, including her mother Eliza Poe and her adoptive mother, Frances Allan. Biographers often mean that "Annabel Lee" was written for the wife of Poe, Virginia, who had died two years earlier, as suggested by the poet Frances Sargent Osgood, even though Osgood himself was a candidate for the inspiration of the poem. A strong case can be made for Poe's wife, Virginia: He is the man he loves since childhood, the only one who becomes his bride, and the only one who has died. The poetic autobiographical readings have also been used to support the theory that Virginia and Poe never perfected their marriage, since "Annabel Lee" was a "girl". Criticism, including T.O. Mabbott, believes that Annabel Lee is just Poe's bleak product imagination and that Annabel Lee is not a real person in particular. A childhood boyfriend named Poe Sarah Elmira Royster believes the poem was written by remembering it and Poe himself said it. Sarah Helen Whitman and Sarah Anna Lewis also claim to have inspired the poem.
Local legend in Charleston, South Carolina tells the story of a sailor who met a woman named Annabel Lee. His father did not approve of the couple and the two met personally in the cemetery before the sailor's time stationed in Charleston ran out. As she left, she heard about Annabel's death from yellow fever, but her father would not allow her at the funeral. Since he does not know the exact location of his funeral, he keeps on guard at the cemetery where they often meet secretly. There is no evidence that Edgar Allan Poe has heard of this legend, but the locals insist it is his inspiration, especially given Poe was stationed in Charleston when in the army in 1827.
History and acceptance of the publication
"Annabel Lee" was probably composed in May 1849. Poe took steps to ensure that the poem would be seen in the print media. He gave a copy to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, his literary executor and personal rival, gave another copy to John Thompson to pay the $ 5 debt, and sold his copy to Sartain's Union Magazine for publication. Although Sartain was the first official print in January 1850, Griswold was the first to publish it on October 9, 1849, two days after Poe's death as part of Poe's obituary in New York The Daily Tribunal >. Thompson published it in Southern Literary Messenger in November 1849.
"Annabel Lee" is the inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov, especially for his novel Lolita (1955), where the narrator, as a child, falls in love with severely ill-treated Annabel Leigh "in a kingdom by sea ". Originally, Nabokov was titled The Kingdom by the Sea novel. Nabokov will then use this as the title of the novel "doppelganger" Lolita on Look at Harlequin! .
Adaptations
- The English composer Henry David Leslie (1822-96) sets this as a ballad for sound and piano, respelling as 'Annabelle Lee'.
- The 1914 film The Avenging Conscience is based on "Annabel Lee" and Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."
- The adaptation version of the poem appeared on Sarah Jarosz's 2011 album, Follow Me Down .
- Stevie Nicks recorded this poem version of her 2011 album, In Your Dreams .
- Joan Baez recorded this version of the poem on her 1967 album, Joan , with music by Don Dilworth.
- The Alesana Band is based on three albums ( The Emptiness, A Place Where the Sun Is Silent and Confessions ) on poetry and calls it The Annabel Trilogy .
- The poem appeared on Marissa Nadler's album, Balada Hidup dan Mati .
- An adaptation appears in the song "Three" by the band La Dispute on the first word EP they say, Here, Listen. and in the song "Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again" on their album Somewhere under the River Antara Vega and Altair.
- The poem was tuned to music by the English composer Joseph Charles Holbrooke (5 July 1878 - 5 August 1958) as the Ballad for Op oration and the Op orchestra. 41b (1905)
- An adaptation version of a poem by Spanish group Radio Futura on the album "La canciÃÆ'³n de Juan Perro", 1987 (music by Luis AuserÃÆ'³n, lyrics adapted by Santiago AuserÃÆ'³n).
- The poem was adapted as the song "Annabel Lee" on the Tiger Army album Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite
- The poem was translated into Hebrew by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and performed by various Israeli artists, among them Yossi Banai, Yoni Bloch, and Shlomo Artzi (who performed the song in Hebrew and original).
- The poem also became the basis for Cassandra Clare's
Lady Midnight as the first book in the Dark Artifices series. Each chapter title is taken directly from the poem. - The web series "Kissing in the Rain" features a short version of poetry with Sean Persaud as Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Kate Wiles as Annabel Lee.
- The band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club released the song from the poem. The piano piece is the iTunes pre-order bonus track on their sixth studio album, Beat The Devil's Tattoo . The album title itself is a phrase taken from Edgar Allan Poe's other short story, The Devil In The Belfry.
- Alexander Veljanov recorded an adaptation entitled Lied fÃÆ'¼r Annabel Lee in German to Edgar Allan Poe Projekt - Visionen (Double Album) 2006.
- Plot for video game The Dark Eye is a loose adaptation of poetry
See also
- Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
References
External links
- History of publication in Edgar Allan Poe Society
- Audio - listen to poetry read
- "Annabelle Lee" [ sic ], a 19th century music version by Henry Leslie, sung by Derek B. Scott
- Adaptation of poetry into comic
- Annabel Lee public domain audiobook on LibriVox
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