You can do schoolwork at your own pace, without the distractions from other students. You can sometimes (depending on what online school you're considering) customize your school to fit you better, play at your strengths and work on your weakness. If you have trouble at math, than you can spend extra time there, or if you're great at english, you could spend less time working on that, while in a regular school you have to work in the time that the teacher gives you.
Normally its the pleasure of doing so or they are just in need of something (i.e. robbing a bank-in need of money). Most people who do something wrong to get something they want do it for the thrill or the pleasure.
In the scenario, the ideas in the passage that are similar to the idea of Poe in the 3rd line of Annabel Lee would be that both describe unexpected misfortune. Hope this is the answer and this would be of big help.
