Poe's stories are very dark and deal with death and loss. Many of the lost are young women which is a call from his own life. He lost 3 of the most beloved women in his life. Mom , step mom and wife. These moments in his past shows up in his stotys. One of the stories is the poem “Annabel Lee” he talks about his love for his wife who was also his underage cousin . “I was a child and she was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea,/But we loved with a love that was more than love” (7-9) in this quote he says “I was a child and she was a child,” watch is pryley true she was 13 so she was a child but he was 26. 26 was and never will be considered a child. He also says there love was more than just love they had a special connection that he never had with anyone else and she was the love of his life. He also writes “all the night-tide, I lie down by the side/Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,/ In her sepulchre there by the sea—/in her tomb by the sounding sea.”(40-42) Poe is saying that nothing can stop his love for her not even death. He goes every night and lays next to her tomb so he can be with her every night. This poem relates right to the death of his wife and is influenced by it.
Link to “Annabel Lee” -https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee
No comments:
Post a Comment