Annabel Lee Compare And Contrast

“Annabel Lee” and “The girl who loved the sky”

In this essay I will be comparing “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The girl who loved the sky” by Anita endrezze. These to poems are based on a same idea which is loving unconditionally. “Annabel Lee” is about a couple love story and “The girl who loved the sky” is about two girls that loved each other because they understood and complemented each others lives. “Annabel Lee” will be poem a, and “The girl who loved the sky” will be poem b in this essay.

Poem a, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is directed to people who have felt real love and people who are in love and are able to identify themselves when they read this poem. The pome is composed of 6 stanzas and 41 lines. The author uses short sentences and he uses a different rhyme scheme in every stanza. For example the first stanza is ABABCB. Poem a message is how unconditional love can destroy any barrier and it can survive even when one of the people in the couple is away or even dead.

This poem uses an old classic English language expressed in words like “maiden” or “coveted”. The tone is passionate and loving in the first few stanzas but then it becomes a bit more melancholic and sad as the poem develops. The narrator of the poem is a man who is deeply in love. The poem is written in first person point of view. It has personification in line 25-26 when it says “that the wind came out of a cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel lee”, this gives the attribute or ability to kill to a cloud. The poem has a musical rhythm and the word “Annabel” has a subconscious ring <s the last part of the word is like the ringing of a bell. The first line also has repetition as it says “It was many and many a year ago”. The poem also includes internal rhyming like “chilling and killing my Annabel lee”.

Poem b was written by Anita endrezze,

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