Poe - Annabel Lee

Yet another poem that sealed Poe's legacy as an iconic author, this one wasn't even published until after he died when someone found the poem and put it out there. The repetition is still prominent with the repeating of lines such as "kingdom by the sea" and "beautiful Annabel Lee". I always found it interesting how Poe tended to write poems about the deaths of beautiful women, which makes for an all the more upsetting premise for such intriguing poems. It would seem as though he did this because his only wife and first cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, died rather early having only been married for eleven years. Despite the sad contexts of his poems, he really hammered it in with his unique style of poetry in his rhyme schemes, repetition, and vivid vocabulary. It's one of many reasons why I still enjoy Poe even after all these years.