Comparing Annabel Lee And Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Throughout the poems, “Annabel Lee”, and, “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night”, both authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Dylan Thomas have themes related to death. The poem authored by Edgar Allan Poe has an overall topic of the human reaction to the demise of a loved one. The person who Poe was writing about was his late wife, Virginia, who had died from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Poe was referring to death in his poem, as a heartbreaking event, that makes people feel dejected and alone. Poe uses very strong and dark word choice to keep the reader interested in the topic. For instance, Edgar Allan Poe wrote, “So that her highborn kinsman came/And bore her away from me,/To shut her up in a sepulcher/In this kingdom by the sea,” (Poe 17-20).

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