I’m a teacher and I’m teaching Annabel Lee for the first time! This was so helpful. I like how you assigned a literary element to each group. Great way to break it up! Please post more!
This piece always puts me in mind of the stages of grief... Lite/happy, to upset/anger, to peacefulness/acceptance. We could even say that the refrain of "Kingdom by the Sea" is isolation and repeating her name is denialism. And with that, in this writing he is bargaining to keep her "alive" throughout. Also... It's almost Romeo & Juliet esque...
I disagree with this naive analysis. Poe is about horror right? He killed Anabel and he is in denial and regret. He is morning but it's over the top.l It doesn't make sense for angels to covet a human couple's genuine love. And that her family bores her away from him is because they know he killed her. He attributes her death to the wind. Yeah. The wind. He's all alone. Yep. He did it.
I'd never have thought it to be this way. Very interesting interpretation, akin to some of Poe's tales about murder, delusion, perversity/guilt and stuff like that. I wouldn't deem this teacher's interpretation as "naive" at all though, it's just that yours Is pretty original, I reckon. You seem to have a pretty vividi imagination. Props to you for that.
"Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" were both written by Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and falsely claimed in a sort of 19th-century identity theft by Edgar Allan Poe. My paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier" explains. It is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf
