Annabel Lee
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Posted By: Geetar1870

Posted On: Mar 13, 2013
Views: 3412
Annabel Lee

I wonder if anybody ever steps back from this poem and just asks himself how E. A. Poe did this. This is the greatest poem in American literature. It's even better than the Raven and that's damn damn good. I remember reading Verlaine in college who was obviously influenced by the same guy Poe was influenced by namely Baudelaire and I still thought how did Poe write this. There is gloom and melancholy in Verlaine eg such as the tombs of the Naiads which is very primordial and pagan but nothing touches Poe. After four years I'm back here to say this again I still believe you cannot separate this poem from the American Civil War and to be truly experienced one should use an opiate derivative and sleep in the gutters of Baltimore. This man was a genius.


Posted By: Geetar1870

Posted On: Nov 24, 2010
Views: 4888
Cf., Aura Lee with Annabel Lee

Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Maid of Golden Hair!
Sunlight came along with thee,
And flowers in the air.

It's impossible to think about the deep melancholy and gloom in poems such as these, so popular during the Confederacy, e.g., "Just Before the Battle Mother," and not mourn the loss of literacy in our culture, as well as all things felicious, cultivated and worthy. Would that a Poe or a Clemens be alive today to critique this sad farce of a Nation.


Posted By: Geetar1870

Posted On: Nov 24, 2010
Views: 4871
Belle of the South

Less than twenty years after he penned it, it could verily stand for something completely different altogether, albeit quite figuratively. And now any gentle person living under this flag of tyranny, waits by the sepulcher of the English language (long-since murdered by urban Negroes) and our conquered banner, in eternal melancholy.


Posted By: abdrea

Posted On: May 12, 2010
Views: 4872
its awsome

i read dis poem today in iss and i thought to my self this is da besty poem i have ever read its like so magical u no wut its sayibng..im only 13 ears old and dis is by far my favorite poem


Posted By: Carmen Ryland

Posted On: Nov 2, 2009
Views: 4907
Annabel Lee

30 years or more ago i saw a movie in class in highschool which was my first exposure to Annabel Lee. the movie was in black and white and i dont remember who read it on the film but it was very haunting. it was a love that never died. i never forgot it.


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