(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 / Boston)

poet Edgar Allan Poe
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Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
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  • Matt Zweil (10/5/2012 4:39:00 PM)

    My good friend Tracy R. Gibson (an accomplished stage actor) produced a video interpretation of this. I think it's phenomenal and capture's Poe's mania perfectly:

    Annabel Lee Video Reading:
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=PyU4wRTPHXQ

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  • Frida Lee (9/14/2012 9:48:00 PM)

    If you want a very honest opinion, I love this poem. But I interpret the message as a man who loved this 'Annabel Lee' but with a 'love more than love' - an obsession. The narrator of the poem seems very possessive and obsessive of the girl, and seems sort of crazy if you ask me. Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his darker literature, so it wouldn't really be surprising if the theme of the poem isn't just an 'everlasting love'.

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  • * Sunprincess * (9/5/2012 8:11:00 AM)

    So sad but at the same time so beautiful... :)

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  • Aditya Morey (9/5/2012 8:07:00 AM)

    http: //www.poemhunter.com/poem/heart-wreck/comments.asp

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  • Sandra Feldman (9/2/2012 10:17:00 PM)

    Everytime I read it, I cry. Can sadness be this beautiful?

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  • M C (8/22/2012 10:38:00 AM)

    So the narrator's crazy, right? This is the beautiful love story of a crazy man, poignant because it's a sad story, but also because he's nuts and doesn't realize it. Right?

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  • Sandra Feldman (8/12/2012 2:37:00 AM)

    A Symphony of Love and tears

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  • Sandra Feldman (8/12/2012 1:56:00 AM)

    No matter how many times I read this poem of everlasting love, it still goes through me like dagger

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  • Sandra Feldman (8/8/2012 1:30:00 AM)

    My dear mother introduced me to this wonderful poem. Never could thank her enough.
    Stayed with me, all my life, as did her love

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  • Sandra Feldman (8/7/2012 2:46:00 PM)

    Can ever, dissever my soul from the soul.............
    Pathetically poignant, transmission of feeling
    Goes through you like a poetic shock

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