Comparing The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, For Annie By Edgar Allen Poe

For Annie The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, For Annie, and countless others were written by American writer Edgar Allen Poe. Known for his love of writing intricate stories of mystery and macabre, Poe was a riveting soul. In the poem, For Annie, Poe tells the story of a man who, although dead, his heart lives on forever because of his love of “Annie.” The complex poem leaves the reader with several lingering question because of the narrator and his Annie. The beginning of the poem opens with an assumed death. The line “And the fever called “Living” Is conquered at last.” Leads the reader to be under the impression that the narrator is recently deceased. On top of that the first stanza already explains the narrator’s feeling on life. To have

Annie appears to be the narrator’s lover, and you discover they were in love. “ She tenderly kissed me, She fondly caressed me...” This implies that the two were close, leaving the audience questioning why life would have been better without the love of the narrator’s life. Some can make connections between the narrator and Annie and Edgar Allan Poe and his wife Virginia. While they were first cousins, somewhere between moving in and living with each other the two, Poe and Virginia, fell in love. Even though Poe was married and could have been in love, he was still depressed. When comparing Poe to the narrator their emotions appear similar. Both are depressed or want death and despise life yet they have women who love them. On another note, the name Annie means “prayer” in American and “grace” in Russian. Throughout the poem Annie is emphasized as good-hearted, praying for the narrator as he takes his eternal rest. In stanza thirteen it says, “When the light was extinguished, She covered me warm, And she prayed to the angels To keep me from harm To the queen of the angels To shield me from harm.” This validates that Annie is fit to her name and cares extremely for the narrator. While Annie wants to continue with her lover in life, the narrator makes it clear that he wants death yet still is in love with Annie. Even in his death, there is still love. “But my heart it is