Edgar Allan Poe’s poems “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Raven” are unique poems. Poe was a very interesting writer. He wrote numerous poems about his life and how it affected him along the line. Poe had a very sad, mad, depressing life when it started the age of 2 years old. Also, didn’t get over with until he died at age 40. Poe’s poems that we read in class are a lot alike because they all had something to do somewhere in his lifespan. They all talk about how he lost someone very close people to him. Also, Poe had decided that he wanted to write about them in his poems. How are the three poems “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Raven” alike? Poe’s poems are alike because he writes about people and love in his poems. They all have something …show more content…
The maiden's name was Virginia, but he wanted a rhyme scheme so he used Annabel Lee. She wants to love and to be loved by Edgar Allan Poe. They loved each other with everything they had in them, but much to their dismay the seraphs took away Annabel Lee. “A wind blew out of a cloud chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee” (line 15, 16). A chill came threw the window of the bedroom and it took Annabel Lee away, which meant that she got sick and passed away at night. “The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me” (line 21, 22). The angels were so jealous of Annabel Lee’s and Edgar's love for eachother, so then they took her away from him because they were jealous of their love for each other. “That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (line 25, 26). No one could separate them because there love was stronger than anything out there. “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride, In the sepulcher there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea” (line 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41). This quote describes how he dreams about her, he can see her face when he goes to sleep, and never stops missing her. When the stars are in the sky …show more content…
A man is suffering from a lost of a lover. The poem takes place around midnight, sometime in December. He is hiding his sorrow in the books he read. He is in his chamber when there is a knock on his door. He is scared of what or who is knocking at his door at this time of night. He starts to tell them that he is sorry for not opening the door faster because he was ‘taking a nap’. And when he look there was no one there but pure darkness. He is still at the door and suddenly he hears the whispered word “Lenore”. “Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning” (line 31). He is angry because excepted someone to be at door, but to his dismay no one was there at the door. He was just trying to tell himself that it was the wind. He is going back into his chamber and when he sits down he hears another knock, but it was louder. Then he hears the whispered word “Lenore”. He hears the knock on the window. He opens it and sees nothing, but a raven at the window and it flies in. It perched above the chamber door. The bird started to amuse the man and got him to smile. “Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore” ” (line 48). The Raven said the word Nevermore and the man thought it was its name. The man is marveled on how the bird can speak and perch on the chamber door. “Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before--On the morrow he will leaves me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said “Nevermore” ” (line