The voice of the poem is that of a man who is struggling with feelings of bitterness and pain because of the death of his love, Annabel Lee. The story seems to be told years after the death of the young maiden, “It was many and many a year ago”, yet the tone of voice allows us to see how fresh the pain still is to the man. Because there are many references to the sea (the kingdom was by the sea and she was buried by the sea), the speaker appears to be someone who has a connection to and a love for the

The tone of this poem is sad and depressing, yet there is an undeniable feeling of hope that the power of the couple’s love truly managed to rise above the forces that tried to defeat it. The tone is also laced with blame and bitterness, but there is always a sense of love and beauty intertwined. Because the poem begins like a fairytale, the tone, initially, is very deceptive. We are fooled into believing there will be a happy ending. It is not until the tone takes a sudden turn in the second stanza, that we realize this will not be the case.

The imagery in the poem is beautiful throughout, with the exception of the wind, which “came out of a cloud” and killed her. Images of the young couple living in a breathtaking kingdom by the sea, angels, a love powerful enough to conquer all, and the heavens, give connotations of a captivating, fairytale. This stunning picture, however, is interlaced with dark images of envious angels, death, tombs, sorrow, and “high born kinsmen”, all rep

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