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Annabel Lee, Romanticism and Pathetic Fallacy

 Today we started our work on Edgar Allan Poe. We talked about the poem entitled Annabel Lee. Here are some points we evoked:
- it seemed like a story that tells the lives of two characters who feel a strong love (the poet / narrator and Annabel Lee)
- it's a melancholy poem, yet it's a beautiful proof of love, and he writes positive things about his love.
- It sounds like a song, there's rhythm to it.
- The first stanza is perfect, then the poem becomes dramatic and the stanzas change.
- It's Romantic and Ideal.

 So here are a few of the themes from the poem:
- love vs death / fear
- truth / forgetfulness 
- sea (=emotions of the poet) / kingdom (everyday life)
We also took a look at a painting called The Wanderer Above The Sea Of Clouds by Austrian painter Caspar David Friedrich. It illustrates the connection between Nature and the feelings of the artist, his inner life (sa vie intérieure). 



stanza (strophe)
line (vers)
It was many and many a year ago, A
   In a kingdom by the sea, B
That a maiden there lived whom you may know A
   By the name of Annabel Lee; B
And this maiden she lived with no other thought C
   Than to love and be loved by me. B

It was many and many a year ago

 For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

 an anapest is 2 unstressed syllables and 1 stressed syllable.
a iamb is 1 unstressed syllable and 1stressed syllable.

 HOMEWORK:
Nov. 15th : read pages 90 to 93, to "During the whole of a dull, dark..." to "...into the presence of his master."

 next time: quotes by ruskin and Friedrich and Wordsworth
more romantic poems? more prosody? a bit, just a bit. Keats
dying young
life in USA back then
life of Poe

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