edgar allan poe question?

Question

whay did edgar write the poem, anabelle lee? its not a homework question, i am just really interested in his work. what is a good book i can get thats about him. whats the best poem youve ever read or written?

Answer 1

Al, The poem refers to the sea and that is the place of the begining of life. Really the poem is very simple yet the authors life reflects the things the author went through. He, Edger Allen, lost his late wife 3 year before he himself died. The poem was written in the last year of his life. When he speaks about annibel lee she was acctually his wife virgina but her name is not used. Any refence to the name angel or any type of diety is in reference to the authors take on God himself.

Answer 2

I was hoping this was an annabelle lee poem.
I translated it into french.
My take on the French Translation was that it was kind of a spoof on love poems since the -ee rhyme is basic and childish. So my french version played this out.

Wiki say:
Like Poe's most famous poem, The Raven, it tells of a man mourning a dead lover. It is unclear whether the eponymous character Annabel Lee referred to a real person. Some say it was written for his wife, some for a lover, and others that it was the product of Poe's gloomy imagination.

There is also some debate about the final line.

Answer 3

I love Poe. I memorized the first paragraph of The Tell Tale Heart in HS as a monologue for an audition.

And I wrote a song to the first 2 stanzas of The Bells which my theory teacher compared to Tchaikovsky's version. I didn't even know that he has written a song to that poem as well. My theory teacher thought that I was inspired by it at first.

True nervous, very very dreadfully nervous I had been and am. But why will you say that I am mad?

But the first stanza of The Bells is so appropriate for this time of year!!

Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Answer 4

Borders has a huge book with all of his works in it. they might not have it now, because i got it for my fiance as a christmas gift last year when it was on sale, but it is huge!! and i believe that anabelle lee was written for his lover, who died, like many other people in his life.

Answer 5

i have a book by edgar allan poe you may be interested in
the raven published in 1883 and i am interested in what it may be worth the cover is a very unusual cover if you can e-mail me and i will send a pic [e-mail]

Answer 6

Read Kenneth Silverman's biography of Poe. It's very good, and very informative.

Answer 7

he wrote it cause of the loss of his wife who was also his cousion.
there are lots and lots of books about him and there are some that have his complete works..check out your local bookstore or amazon.com.
my fav is annabel lee, lenore, and many more....

Answer 8

She was the girl he loved who died and that started his deep melancholy.

Answer 9

I believe he was in love with her...

Answer 10

read his biography and you will see why.