Analyse poème Annabel Lee Allan Edgar Poe LLCE anglais 1e + diaporama

« Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe •1809-1849 •American journalist •Author of many romans, novels, tales and poems Annabel Lee • Topics: Everlasting love Death • Tragical tone • Inspiration: Virginia Poe ?(his wife) • Poem: • 6 stanzas • From 6 to 8 lines • No regular rhyme pattern A children’s tale? • 1st person:Unknown narrator • Use of many « my »= poet’s obsession • Introducing like a fairy tale A contrast between love and death • Lexicons of: o Nature oSupernatural entities oDeath oLove •Eternal love A dive in gothic genre •Hearthbreak •Dark images •Dark atmosphere •Contrast between frightening world and love Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 1. 2.            Lecture orale Introduction 1e diapo Annabel Lee is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe He was born on 1809, the 19th January He was an American journalist at first, then he wrote many romans, novels, tales & poems. Annabel Lee is the last poem written by Poe before his death in 1849. 2e diapo The topics of this poem are everlasting love & death of a young woman: the tone is tragic. We don’t really know who is the inspiration for this poem, it may be Poe’s wife Virginia Poe, who died at 25 y.o.

Poe never really recovered from her death. Annabel Lee is a poem composed of 6 stanzas in which there are from 6 to 8 lines. There is no visual symmetry. There is no rhyme pattern, but many rhymes in [i] are used. 1.

Development  3e diapo  The poem is written at the 1st person.

But we don’t know who is the narrator, his age, his name, his social condition.  We only know that Annabel & him were children.

“I was a child and she was a child.”  However, the name Annabel is used all over the poem and the repetitions of “my” show the poet’s obsession for the young lady.  We don’t have Annabel’s description, what she looks like.

But we know she’s from a good social condition thanks to the line: “So that her highborn kinsmen came”  The poet used expressions such as he told a fairy tale, readers don’t really when or where this story takes place: “It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by.... »