An Analysis of "Annabel Lee" Most people agree that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" about his departed wife, Virginia Clemm, who died of tuberculosis two years earlier. Some critics, however, contend that in the seventh line of the poem he states, "I was a child and she was a child," and he certainly was no child in 1836 at twenty-seven when he married his thirteen-year-old bride. Maybe the poem is about an earlier love, or …
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…in the Heavens envy them so much that they send a chilling wind that kills Annabel Lee and take her away and place her in tomb. The husband still loves her and says that their souls are bonded together and can never be broken. Nothing could ever come between them. Even in death, their love still remains intact and this is shown when he decides to die next to his wife to be together forever.