Comparison: "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"

Edgar Allan Poe's view on poetry is that all poems must be a "rhythmical creation of beauty". In his eyes, melancholy and sadness is beautful. He thinks that the death of a young beautiful woman is itself full of beauty. In both "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", Poe writes about this so-called beauty. In "Annabel Lee", a young man is mourning the death of a beautiful young lady. Even though the woman had died quite …

…Raven" may be sad about his lost, but his love cannot compare to that of the man in "Annabel Lee". In these two short stories, the two main characters, as mentioned before, are very much alike, yet at the same time different. They both lose the woman of their life and they both are still in mourning. Poe's poems are usually about such sorrow and sadness, and it is this that makes his poems beautiful.