between “Annabel Lee” and “My Last Duchess” Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” are two poems written in the same historical period, the 1800s. “Annabel Lee” was the last of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems to be published and it appeared in October 9, 1849, in the New York Tribune, while “My Last Duchess” was published in 1842 in the collection Dramatic Lyrics (Johnson). Both poems have similar titles because they portrait the image of a woman: Annabel Lee and the Duchess
to their heart. However, the event of physical death does not always result in the death of the intense passion someone feels towards their lover. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee”, he uses various poetic elements to romanticize the unceasing love that a man faces after the loss of his darling bride. This is effective at producing an illustration of true and endless adoration. To begin, it does not take long to notice Poe’s frequent use of rhyme throughout the entire poem. Although inconsistent
major theme in literature; humans want to understand their feelings. They want to know how others react and cope with them. Because love is such an intriguing emotion for humans of all time periods authors Anne Bradstreet, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe have all shed light on the subject in three very different ways in their works “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and “Annabel Lee.” Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” describes her immense love for her
through emphasizing upon the emotions, sensations and perceptions arising from supernatural experiences. Throughout my core text, partner text and selected poems I have realised that such statement is very true and I cannot but agree that gothic writing does indeed illuminate such forces. After-life, life, science and knowledge are the main forces beyond our understanding presented in the texts. Unlike other texts during 1818's, Mary Shelly challenges the reader to accept the forces beyond human understanding