Annabel Lee And The Raven Essay

Love occupies a large part of people's lives. There is passionate love, happy love, sad love, and so on. Death always affects people's lives especially the death of someone close to them. Therefore, in poetry or literature, love and death are also one of the common themes. Edgar Allan Poe was also good at imagining and using the topic of love and death. In his literary works, he often described sad and poignant love and death, especially the death of a beloved woman in Annabel Lee and The Raven. Thus, this essay will explore how Poe treats and describes the death of a beloved woman in Annabel Lee and The Raven. And he uses a variety of literary devices such as repetition, tone, symbolism, irony, metaphor, and so on. In “Annabel Lee”, Poe

But in the poem "The Raven," which is also about the death of a loved person, the narrator behaves differently. The death of a loved one in "The Raven" is even more painful and even terrifying. Similarly, the poem "The Raven" also uses repetitive literary devices, and the words "raven", "nevermore", and "sad" appear repeatedly throughout the poem. And these repetitive words like what Christine says in her analysis of this poem all “add to the feeling of despondency in the poem”. In many stories and cultures, ravens have been given dark and mysterious meanings. Here, no exception. Poe uses symbolism here, and the crow symbolizes death and sorrow. At the beginning of this poem, Poe doesn’t introduce the story, instead of starting with a scene in which the narrator is awakened by a knock at the door. And Poe hints that the story may not be happy by using the words " a midnight dreary" and " weak and weary", creating a mysterious and slightly sad atmosphere. And then, readers could figure out that the narrator is sad about the death of his lover from the lines “From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—Nameless here for evermore.”. Lenore must be a very important person to the narrator. The movement of the curtains, and the darkness he found after opening the door after a long period of psychological construction, all changed his mood from calm to anxious and even a little fearful. Darkness also brings suspense and the unknown. The miss of his beloved Lenore seems to make him imagine seeing her again. But it turned out to be just the wind, and everything was an illusion. He opened the window unwillingly, but a raven came instead. The arrival of the crow made him realize that he had really lost his beloved, and the "nevermore" that the