Within the late great poet, Edgar Allan Poe's, last poem entitled, Annabel Lee, Poe speaks through the voice of a character closely aligned to the depths of his own life. Throughout the poem, the male character Poe created, mourns the death of his love, Annabel Lee, and conveys a grief-stricken accusational tone.The character blames everyone but himself for the early death of young Annabel Lee, as points to the conspiracy amongst angels with nature and guardianship in her "highborn kinsmen who came and bore her away." He steadily remains dependent on her memory. This all leads to the theme and beforehand discussed subject of the poem. As stated before, Poe most likely intended to so closely align the male narrator character to the experience and memories of his own life. It is well known that Poe's wife died before the age of 25, in the prime of youth. And since then, Poe had had a fixation with death to suddenly occur in the flush of youth amongst beautiful women. Thus, this is the theme. The poem particularly gives emphasis on the youth of Annabel Lee and the male narrator as he treats the pure childhood love as far more full and everlasting than adult love. Indeed, the setting of the poem has a gothic monotone and that monotone serves to encompass the imagery of a such love that withstands trouble and adversity, from the envy of angels of the heavens to the mere physical bounds of death.
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