Edgar Allen Poe’s "Annabel Lee" is a tale of mourning and lost love. Written beautifully and eloquently one can almost forget what the poem is actually saying. "Annabel Lee" is, at best, dark and depressing. But the first time it is read, and the second time, and the third time, for a few people, it is still proclaimed to be "pretty". But it is not just "pretty". It is deep, it is morbid, it …showed first 75 words of 852 total…

…showed last 75 words of 852 total…to really change reader’s moods. It is an almost subconscious shift for the reader and sometimes is not even noticed until the end. "Annabel Lee" is definitely the classic Poe work, filled with morbid, gruesome meanings, yet written in a beautiful, heart wrenching way. This poem is depressing, dreary, and strange—and it is also heartwarming, loving, and poignantly tender as a man in grief reveals his feelings for his one true, dead, love.