Annabel Lee
"Annabel Lee" is an 1849 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published shortly after his death.
The narrative poem tells of a narrator's love for the title character, a maiden who dies young, with the speaker claiming their love was so intense that angels grew envious.
The name has become a literary reference point for tragic young love and idealized beauty.
She was his Annabel Lee—beautiful, doomed, and impossible to forget.
- angelsDivine winged messengers
- loveIntense fond attachment
- lost lovePast romantic attachment
- childhood sweetheartRomantic attachment from youth
- lossBeing without something
Edgar Allan Poe · grief · Romanticism · sea · heartbreak · gothic poetry · dark romance · death · ballad · kingdom · tomb · sepulchre · seraphs · moonlight · tragedy · yearning · nostalgia · rhyme
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