Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

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Have you ever loved with a love that was more than love? How would you feel if the love of your life died? Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee,” expresses strong emotions towards his Annabel Lee. In the poem, Poe talks about the painful death and love of Annabel Lee. Throughout the poem, Poe uses repetition, alliteration , and personification to symbolize love and death.
Throughout the poem Poe uses repetition, along the poem the narrator repeats the name “Annabel Lee”. Poe uses this literary device to show one of the themes in the poem, love. Some examples are “My beautiful Annabel Lee” and “By the name of Annabel Lee”. (Michael J. Cummings..© 2005). Once the theme is stated, Poe starts to describe their love together. Some examples are “But