Memo About Annabel Lee

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| Georgia Press | Memo To: | John Smith | From: | Kaylon Jackson | cc: | Supervisor | Date: | July 20, 2013 | Re: | Publication | | | The purpose of this memo is to address the publication ideas that I have. My idea for this publication comes from the literacy text “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, which by the way is considered to be poetry. The overall quality in this poem consists of everlasting love, pain, sorrow, determination, and strength. The impressive thing about this poem is how Edgar expresses his love for Annabel. In this poem he made it clear that Annabel was the one and only true love of his life, and he wasn’t going to be without her, ever. What makes this love so rare is the fact that they were not adults when they fell in love. They were teenagers or maybe not quite teenagers yet when this happened. Edgar explained that they had a love so strong that the angels from heaven were jealous, which indicates that their love was way more than I love you and you love me type of situation, but it displays how dangerously in love they were with each other, and nothing is more beautiful than pure true love. When he described their love he said things like, “Than to love and be loved by me”, “But we loved with a love that was more than love”, “My beautiful Annabel Lee”, “But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we” (Pike & Acosta, 2010 p388). You wouldn’t expect a child or a young teenager to express his self that way would you? The sad part about this poem is that Annabel died. Edgar was convinced that the angles did it because of their jealousy of his and Annabel’s love. When Edgar said he wasn’t going to be without Annabel he meant that literally. Annabel’s coffin lay near the sea, and every single night Edgar went and got in the coffin and lay with her. I know the ending is sad and a bit
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