What was the theme of Annabel lee?

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2003

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The overriding theme of Annabel Lee was the possiblity of perfect love. The perfect love that the "seraphs" or angels took away from Poe because it was too good, and the jealousy of that perfect love. Another theme that seems to be evident in this poem is the love that transends all physical time and space. It is interesting that Poe wrote something about her death and the never ending love shortly before his death.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2003

More chilling is what the story of the poemactually says. That in defiance of the tomb and whatever, the lover will not be moved from his place beside the tomb, though he is alive and she dead. It is a statement of revolt as much as love and there is no sugar coating the existential reality of where the two lovers are at the end of the poem, however ideal and happy their love might have been or might be after death.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2003