An Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee

1. Introduction Edgar Allen Poe was born 1809 as the son of the teenage actors Elisabeth Arnold and David Poe Junior in Richmond, Virginia. Since both parents died when he was young, he was raised by the merchant John Allen. Poe studied at the University of Virginia, but left it in 1827 after a quarrel with Allen in order to search for his fathers relatives in Baltimore. There he published his first volume of poems, Tamerlane and other …

…life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea- In her tomb by the sounding sea. (Lines 38 - end) The reader is left with the image of an everlasting love which triumphs, though sadly, over death, just as Poe's love for his deceased wife must have lasted as strong as ever after her death for the remaining two years of his life. 4. Bibliography *<Tab/>http:\www.wwnorton.com/naal/