The speaker has often been assumed to be Poe himself as his young wife died about two years before he wrote it.
The narrator, Annabel’s lover, describes a mutual devotion so powerful and passionate that even the angels in heaven are envious and thus whisk Annabel away from him. Like many of his poems, it tells of the death of a beautiful woman. “Annabel Lee” was the last poem Poe composed before he died. The four stanzas symbolize the major milestones of human experience - childhood, youth, maturity, and death. This poem is heavily onomatopoeic, which is the term for a word that sounds like its meaning (e.g., “tinkle” or “roar”), so it is like the reader hears the scenes play out as well as watches them. The energy and rhythm of the verses match the various scenes painted by the words, which themselves seem to ring, chime, clang, and toll in succession as he moves from sleigh bells to wedding bells, alarm bells, and then finally, to funeral bells. “The Bells” is one such poem that fully engages the readers’ senses, most especially of sound. Poe not only delivers those elements in spades, but he also creates vivid depictions of the stories he weaves together, making them extremely satisfying to read.
Those of us who are novices at reading poetry can be frustrated when a poem doesn’t have an easy rhythm and rhyme. Most high school students have come across “The Raven” on their syllabuses at some point before graduation, but Poe composed many other equally haunting and engaging poems.
A central figure of Romanticism in American literature, Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn his living solely from his pen. There is perhaps no greater master of the macabre than Edgar Allan Poe, who was as gifted in evoking the spine-chilling thrills of horror in his poetry as in his ghoulish stories. Presentation on theme: "“The Bells” Edgar Allan Poe.What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
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