Edgar Allan Poe uses horror and gloomy moods throughout all of his poems. Horror, revulsion, depressing, and bleak are words that can describe the mood of the poems "Annabel Lee" and "For Annie". In the Poem "Annabel Lee", the Narrator has passionate love for Annabel Lee and says "But we loved with a love that was more than love". The narrator was obsessed with Annabel Lee and believed that the Angles in heaven were jealous …
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…ah, that horrible, horrible throbbing!" Using words such as horrible and throbbing and moaning and groaning creates such a fearful image in your head. Onomatopoeias are also used very often to created sound that's makes your heart beat faster then a racehorse' hooves. Just thinking about "Moaning and groaning" makes you automatically think about pain and torture. The moods of horror and gloomy are created to make imagery inside your head by E.A. Poe.