Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
(a)
love
child
beams
dreams
stars
beautiful
sepulchre
tomb
darling
(b)
elevation: medium diction (it sounds elevated, but Poe doesn't use many difficult words)
connotation: literal (there's not a lot of representation/symbols/etc. he loved her, she died, the end).
sound: musical (dreaminess, swaying on the sea)
concreteness: concrete (he says what happens. see connotation)
(c)
The dreamy mourning of Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" underscores the narrator's longing for his deceased love and the violence of his heartache.
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