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Poem Analysis
TPCASTT: Poem analysis
Annabel Lee A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Title The use of Annabel Lee as a title alludes to the narrator’s interpretation of love, death, and beauty through the contemplations and feelings of one woman. A valediction is some sort of separation. This word makes sense as a title because the poem speaks about two lovers parting ways.
Paraphrase Annabel Lee is a representation of love. The narrator draws a picture of his eternal love. He and his love had a connection so intense that even the angels were envious. Although she dies, their souls will always be one even when their bodies part. Donne argues using a catalog of strange comparisons. He speaks about the hardships of long-distance relationships but does not condone the drama of new couples, “shallow in love” who want to present their emotions. He prefers not to engage in drama because the love that he shares with his wife is deeper than that.
Connotation The tone of the poem shifts between happiness, peace, love, and Depression, to a dark and dreary tone. unlike other couples with frail relationships, Donne and his wife have moved past the physical aspect of their love.
Attitude The poem begins with a positive narrator, confident about his loved one. Towards the end, however, he is bitter and sad about the death of Annabel The attitude of the speaker is confident and reassuring. He does not view their separation as such but rather an expansion.
Shift Edgar’s tone shifts in the second stanza. At the beginning he was full of love but when Annabel dies his tone shifts to sad and cruel. After the third stanza, his bitterness intensifies and he starts using profanity. There are three shifts throughout the poem. The though he presents in the first stanza is not explored any further. The mood of the poem shifts from one that is gloomy to one that looks on love more spiritually. From stanza five, the poem shifts for the third time with the narrator speaking about souls and applying metaphors to express the endless nature of their love.
Title Revisited After reading the poem, one gets the idea that Annabel Lee was the author’s wife and the poem was dedicated to her remembrance. After reading the poem, the title creates the impression that when we part, it is critical to not mourn. The narrator uses the title to let his wife know that their love is spiritual and not physical.
Theme The dominant theme is love as expressed from the beginning by the author speaking about how his and Annabel’s love was magical. The theme of love and distance where love transcends physical distance.
Poetry in the renaissance period took a lyric, tragedy, elegy or pastoral form. Each poet worked to capture the spirit of beauty in the contemporary world. The poems of this era had the main objective to capture beauty and truth in words. Romantic Poetry was based on emotionalism. Its appreciation of beauty was an effusion of feelings, emotion and heartfelt thankfulness.
In Annabel Lee, the author depicted death as cruel while Donne considered death a mere inconvenience that had no power over love.
