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ANNABEL LEEWritten by Edgar Allan Poe

(Analyzed by Ayu Bulan Paramastri)

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

According to William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard that had been revised and enlarged by C. Hugh Holman in A Handbook To Literature (1960: 364), “Poetry: A term applied to the many forms in which man has given a rhytmic exppression to his most imaginative and intense preseptions of his world, himself, and the interrelationship of the two.”

According to Edwin Arlington Robinson in A Handbook To Literature (1960: 366), “Poetry is language that tells us through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said. All poetry, great or small, does this.”

According to Laurence Perrine in Sound And Sense: An Introduction to Poetry Third Edition (1969:03), “...poetry might be defined as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language.”

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

To appreciate the poem of Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee.

To analyze the intrinsic elements focusing on Figurative Language (Symbol) and Imageries (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) in Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee.

To analyze the extrinsic elements focusing on the tragic erotic love between the narrator with Annabel Lee in Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The scope of this study is to analyze the intrinsic and extrinsic elements in Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee. The intrinsic elements will be focused on the Figurative Language and Imageries. The elements of Figurative Language that will be discussed in this study is Symbol. While, the elements of Imageries in this study will focus on Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. The extrinsic element will be focused on the Tragic Erotic Love between the narrator with Annabel Lee.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET

Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" in May 1849.

The poem may refer to a number of women in Poe's life, most acknowledge it to be in memory of Virginia Clemm, Poe's wife who married him at the age of thirteen and who died in 1847 before she turned twenty-five.

Poe often associated death with the freezing and capturing of beauty, and many of his heroines reach the pinnacle of loveliness on their deathbed.

Annabel Lee

By: Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me. Stanza 1

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea:

But we loved with a love that was more than love–

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.Stanza 2

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea. Stanza 3

The angels, 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.

Stanza 4

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we–

Of many far wiser than we–

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

Stanza 5

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes


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 there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.Stanza 6

SYMBOL ANALYSES

The Kingdom : a symbol of tyranny and cruelty.

The Sea : a symbol of the power of nature.

Annabel Lee : a symbol of impossible.

The Highborn Kinsman : a symbol of the interference of older people in the speaker's life.

The Sepulchre : a symbol for the cold reality of death.

IMAGERY ANALYSES STANZA 1

Visual Imagery:

1. Line 2 : In a kingdom by the sea.

This visualizes that there is a kingdom located near the sea.


Visual Imagery:1. Line 1 : I was a child and she was a child,This visualizes when both of the narrator and Annabel Lee were still children.2. Line 2 : In this kingdom by the sea.This visualizes that there is a kingdom located near the sea.

IMAGERY ANALYSES STANZA 3Visual Imagery:1. Lines 2 & 8 : In this kingdom by the sea.This visualizes that there is a kingdom located near the sea.2. Line 4 : My beautiful Annabel Lee.This visualizes that Annabel Lee has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s opinion.Kinesthetic Imagery:3. Line 3 : A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingThis proves that there is a movement of a wind that blew up a cloud.2. Line 5 : So that her highborn kinsmen cameThis proves that there is a movement from the kinsman that came proved by the narrator’s description.3. Line 6 : And bore her away from me,This proves that there is a movement when the kinsman came and took Annabel Lee away from the narrator.4. Line 7 : To shut her up in a sepulcherThis proves that after the kinsman came and took Annabel Lee away, he placed her in a sepulcher. “Shut her up” means that the kinsman place Annabel Lee’s body in a grave.


Visual Imagery:1. Line 4 : In this kingdom by the sea.This visualizes that there is a kingdom located near the sea.Kinesthetic Imagery:2. Line 5 : That the wind came out of the cloud by night,This proves that there is a movement of a wind that came out from a cloud at night.2. Line 6 : Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.This proves that there is a movement of the wind that chilling and killing (murdering) Annabel Lee.


Visual Imagery:1. Line 4 : And neither the angels in Heaven aboveThis visualizes that above from the earth there is a Heaven filled with the angels.2. Line 5 : Nor the demons down under the seaThis visualizes that in under the sea there are demons living in the darkness.3. Line 7 : Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;This visualizes that Annabel Lee has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s opinion.

IMAGERY ANALYSES STANZA 6Visual Imagery:1. Lines 2 & 4 : Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;This visualizes that Annabel Lee has a beautiful appearance based on the narrator’s opinion.2. Line 3 : And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyesThis visualizes that the narrator feels there are bright eyes of Annabel Lee although she has already dead.3. Line 7 : In her sepulchre there by the sea—This visualizes that the sepulchre’s location is near the sea.Auditory Imagery:4. Line 8 : In her tomb by the sounding sea.This proves that there is a sound of the sea.Kinesthetic Imagery:2. Line 5 : And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the SideThis prove that there is a movement of the narrator who lie down by the side of his lovely Annabel Lee, because of Annabel Lee has already been buried in sepulcher, so the narrator is lie down near the sepulcher.

LOVE ANALYSES

In this poem can be seen in the love between the narrator and Annabel

Lee that grows since they were children. This puppy love has not known any

different, for example in social status, yet.Stanza 1 Lines 5-6

And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

Stanza 2 Line 1

I was a child and she was a child,

However as time goes on, their loves change from puppy love to erotic love.

EROTIC LOVE ANALYSES

Stanza 2 Lines 3-6But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee—With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

The love between the narrator and Annabel Lee is so intense,

mutual and craving for each other makes many sides including Seraphs,

symbol of an angelic being associated by light, ardor and purity, feel jealous.

TRAGIC LOVE 1Stanza 3 Lines 3-4

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

Since human’s power can’t shake their intense love, nature takes actions to separate them physically by taking the live of Annabel Lee. After the death of Annabel Lee, now it is the turn of the Kinsman to take an action to separate them further by burying her in a cold massive locked building called sepulcher where the narrator can’t get close to her.

TRAGIC LOVE 2 Stanza 3 Lines 5-8

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

Since the inseparable love between the narrator and Annabel Lee, the action of the wind and the Kinsman can’t deter the narrator to be closed to the love of his life. The narrator chooses to sleep near the sepulcher.



Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea—

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

When physically separated by the wind and the Kinsman, the narrator chooses to keep his deep love to Annabel Lee by re-chanting her name and their love. The narrator’s choice can’t be blocked by the wind and the Kinsman because it happens in his mind, heart and soul. Does, even though their love ends tragically, but it does not die. It grows forever because the narrator keeps it growing. Their love wins.


For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams


And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes



Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

Love can’t be separated by physical or distance, but physical power and distance can’t kill love if the lover insists to keep their love even though it is just in mind. True love never ends. The tragic love between the narrator and Annabel Lee in Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe is another reflection of tragic love between Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

CONCLUSION

This poem, written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1849, is a famous poem. The intrinsic analysis is done not only using the Figurative Language focuses on Symbol and Allegory, but also Imagery focusing on Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Imageries. The analysis on symbol shows big power which is potential to separate the love. Meanwhile, the analysis on Imagery shows that Visual imagery describes the beauty of their love, Auditory imagery describes the threat, and.Kinesthetic imagery decribes forms of separating actions.

The extrinsic analysis using the concept of love indicates that the love between the narrator and Annabel Lee in the poem entitled Annabel Lee can be categorized as Tragic Erotic Love because the puppy love that grows stronger is separated by the greater power surrounding it such as the wind, the Kinsman and the Sepulchre. However, the true love will not die because the narrator refuses to yield their love.

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