Question

Which lines in the poem show how deeply the speaker feels the loss of Annabel Lee? Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me— Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And 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; For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Answer 1

The beginning of the poem starts out explaining the death of Annabel Lee. Then the poem switches to how the speaker sees her in his dreams, and her eyes in the stars. The speaker says that nothing "can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee". He also says that at night "I lie down by the side Of my darling". These lines show the depth of his loss for Annabel Lee.