LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Question
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She is stolen away by another man.
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She falls ill and dies.
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She is killed by a family member.
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She is captured by another kingdom.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soon thereafter, Annabel Lee contracted yellow fever and died of the dreaded sickness. After the young sailor learned that his love had died, he returned to Charleston to see her one last time. It did him no good, however.
Detailed explanation-2: -The narrator of the poem declares that Annabel Lee died because their love was so strong the angels grew jealous and killed her.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speaker references his beloved’s tomb in stanzas 3 and 6. The third stanza recounts the events that led to Annabel Lee’s untimely death, after which “her highborn kinsmen came / And bore her away from me, / To shut her up in a sepulchre” (lines 17–19).
Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker is obsessed with how and why Annabel died. He wants to know who he can blame for it. At the same time, the themes of death and love are tied together. The poem forces us to ask whether death is the end and has the power to kill love or whether, in fact love can triumph and continue after death.
Detailed explanation-5: -That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. The speaker circles back a little bit, and directly blames the angels for killing his girlfriend. He says that he and Annabel were happier on earth than the angels were in heaven, and that made them jealous.