When narrators detail the loss of a loved one and the mourning that follows, they often focus on the relationship and the circumstances of the passing. In “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator details the underhanded events leading to the death of his love. In contrast, John Greenleaf Whittier describes the passing of his beloved, as a natural order of life. The relationships between the narrators and their deceased women show an intense commitment, however, the passion described in Poe’s writing is divergent to that of Whittier. The settings for both poems use visual imagery to bring the reader into the author’s vision and allows the reader to become involved at different levels. Poe and Whittier differ in their development of the …show more content…
And how both of the women died seemed very different to the cause and the effect that they have on the narrators. In Telling the Bees, the narrator sees her death as a natural death, “For I knew she was telling the bees of one gone on the journey we all must go!” It is as if the narrator believes that her death was justified and that it was meant to be, nobody wrongly took away his love. While in Annabel Lee, the narrator is stuck on the point that her death was not meant to be that she was supposed to stay on earth to love him, and that jealousy took her away. “The angles, not half so happy in heaven, went envying her and me Yes! That was the reason (as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea) that the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” He believes that the angles were jealous of their love and wanted their life and passion. He never gives up on their love, and believes that even though she is dead their love is still alive, so he goes to grave every night and lies by her sepulcher overlooking the “Kingdom by the