The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" and analyzes its literary elements. It argues the poem should be included in a 10th grade textbook because it tells the story of a man trying to overcome the loss of his wife, using rhyme scheme, rhythm, assonance, consonance, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and symbolism. The poem symbolizes Poe's own love life and loss of his real wife to illness.

1. Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
Published November 1849 in The Southern Literary
Messenger
Presented by Raven Lawson and
McKenzie Morgason

2. Thesis:
• The Glencoe textbook publishing
company should publish Annabel Lee in
the 2010 addition of the tenth grade text
book because it tells a story of a man
trying to overcome the loss of his wife.

3. Rhyme Scheme
I was a child and she was a child, A
In this kingdom by the sea: B
But we loved with a love that was more than love C
I and my Annabel Lee; B
With a love that winged seraphs of heaven D
Coveted her and me B

4. Rhythm
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;

5. Assonance
• Poe shows assonance right away by
repeating “a” and “I” sounds in the very
first stanza and the first and fifth lines.
• “It was many and many a year ago,…”
• “And this maiden she lived with no other
thought”

6. Consonance
• Poe shows consonance in the third line of
the first verse and the third line of the
second verse.
• “That a maiden there lived whom you may
know”
• “But we loved with a love that was more
than love”

7. Alliteration
• Poe uses alliteration in lines one and five
of verse 4.
• “The angels, not half so happy in heaven”
• “That the wind came out of the cloud in
one night”

8. Personification
• Poe uses personification in the last two lines
of verse 4. He gives wind the characteristic
of killing.
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee

9. Hyperbole
• Poe uses the poetic device hyperbole in
the first two lines of the forth stanza.
Angels are usually happy in heaven and
are not supposed to envy.
“The angels not so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me.”

10. Symbolism
• The poem “Annabel Lee” symbolizes
Poe’s love life.
• Poe talks about Annabel as his wife dieing
from the wind that was “chilling and
killing”.
• In reality, his wife died of tuberculosis in
1847.

11. Conclusion
• This poem has many literary elements that
make up the poem: Rhyme Scheme,
Rhythm, Consonance, Assonance,
Alliteration, Personification, Hyperbole and
Symbolism.