My Favorite Writing

A love so strong it tore them apart.

The concepts of love and death wrestle together in this love story with no happy ending.

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe tells the haunting tale of a man torn away too soon from his lover Annabel Lee.

Written from an unknown first person narrative, Poe describes the man's love so intensely that readers feel his love as if it was their own.

They loved so deeply that angles from Heaven coveted it and apparently kill for it.

This story at first reads as a romantic lament, but when analyzed closer it becomes apparent their love is not one to desire.

The narrator is obsessed and borderline insane.

"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," writes Poe.

His whole identity is tied to her.

He loved her till death made them part except he could not let go and drove himself to insanity.

Her death traumatizes him into believing the only explanation for her death are envious angels.

I think this tale shows the dark side of love and how it can drive a person to madness.

The narrator is unable to view himself as anything other than a victim and lover of Annabel Lee.

Source: New York Daily Tribune (October 9, 1849)
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe

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