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Compare And Contrast Annabel Lee Museum Indians And The Highwayman

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Lessons from love and loss In life there is love and loss it happens to everyone. Sometimes life can be painful due to loss. And other times it is the greatest thing due to love. For example in Annabel Lee I think one of the many losses is the mind of the narrator. Due to the loss of his love Annabel Lee when Lee dies a part of him dies, and he goes into a state of depression. He shows this by laying by her grave every night. The authors of Annabel Lee, Museum Indians And the Highwayman include love and loss. And how it affects the narrator or main character and how they deal with it. In the poem Annabel Lee the narrator in the story is in love with Lee. And when she dies the narrator gets depressed and never accepts the truth. Instead, he blames the angels for her death. This …show more content…

Or other times he blames the angels for her death like in line 21-22 "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me" This shows that the narrator could not get over Lee's death. And instead he blames others just to have a reason for her death. This shows how the narrator is affected by Lee's death. And also how he is affected by her love. Her love was so powerful that the narrator goes into a state of depression. In The Highwayman, Bess the Highwayman's lover. The love is so strong she sacrifices herself to warn the Highwayman. This is shown in line 78 "Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him-with her death". This shows the hope to keep the Highwayman alive. And also shows the love between the two. The fact that she would sacrifice herself to try to save the Highwayman. And at the end of the story when the Highwayman hears the news of her death he rides towards the inn a gets shot down to join Bess. This shows the couples love that the Highwayman got himself killed to join Bess. In Museum Indians the love of mother is so strong that she left her normal to help her family. They even use her old cut braid of hair to show how she cut her

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