How Is Annabel Lee Presented In The Raven

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The poems, “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven,” have a common theme of despair leads to obsessive behavior. The two poems have been written by the same poet, Edgar Allan Poe. In “ The Raven” the overall concept is a man who talks to a raven who flew into his house and talks to it about his dead loved one. In the other story “Annabel Lee” it is about a man who feels ultimate sorrow for his dead partner and who he keeps saying that he missed. First of all, the speaker in “Annabelle Lee” is obsessed with the loss of his significant other. He goes at night and sits near her tomb every night, saying, “ And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side/ Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, /In her sepulchre by the sea---/In her tomb by