The Ideal Love in Annabel Lee, a Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

The speaker’s love in Annabel Lee could be a normal love. With a melancholic tone but optimistic the speaker shows an ideal love; since the beginning the speaker idealize to Annabel Lee and their love; he calls her as “maiden” exalting the beautiful of Annabel Lee throughout the poem. Moreover, the speaker talks about the beauty and purity of their love and how it was so strong that it overcame the same death. The poem is like a story in which the two first stanzas located the reader in a context (space and time), the next two stanzas tell how Annabel Lee dies and the speaker shows his fury, and the last two stanzas close the poem saying how death can not separate them; these aspects demonstrate how the speaker’s love is normal since it shows how true love should be.

In the two fists stanzas the speaker talks about how much he loved to Annabel Lee and she loves him (5 and 6 lines, 1 stanza), also he argues how their love “was more than love” (line 3, stanza 2).

With words like “coveted” the speaker suggest that their love was so beautiful and pure even for angels making that in the heaven envy them; moreover, the place “kingdom by the sea” represent the purity of this love because it appears like a beautiful and peaceful place in which a true love could grow.

However in the third and fourth stanzas the speaker talks about the unfortunate death of Annabel Lee and shows his fury by the death of his darling to the point of blaming the angels for death of her.

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The speaker tells that the death of his darling was in a night and she was buried away from him; nevertheless, this event does not change the feeling of him towards Annabel Lee what represents the purity and true love that exists between them. With words like “chilling” (line 3, stanza 3) the speaker argue how the night in which his darling was killing by the angels was.

In the last two stanzas the speaker closes the poem talks about the stronger of their love “but our love it was stronger by far than the love” (line 1, stanza 5) and he reaffirms this in the last four lines of the five stanza challenging in some way all that supernatural that can not end their love. Moreover, in the last stanza the speaker tells how he meets his beloved every night in his dreams.

In conclusion, the speaker highlights the love between him and Annabel Lee through the elements that he mentions in this poem, his love becomes something so pure that it would be in the reality of the poem a normal love, it is reaffirmed through some words and the structure of the poem. Also, the speaker’s feeling in the poem demonstrates the reality of a true love that tranced the death.