American Literature / Unit 8 AML 0706 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Annabel Lee" and the Dead Beloved
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The idea
"Annabel Lee", published in eighteen forty-nine, tells of a love in a kingdom by the sea ended by the girl's death, the speaker still lying beside her tomb. Poe called the death of a beautiful woman the most poetical subject.
In practice
A kingdom by the sea, and a tomb.
Where people slip
The claim about the subject is Poe's own.
Your place on the trail
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