Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe Everyone dreams of their one true love, the love they can't live without. The one person who makes their life whole and/or complete and the person who makes them feel like no matter how bad things are, everything will be okay as long as they have each other. In the poem Annabel Lee Edger Allen Poe writes of such a love, a love so deep that even "the angels not half happy in heaven began to envy her and me." Poe's use of a combination of anapestic and iambic meter, along with poetic diction that creates a fable like kingdom between him and his love, causes Annabel Lee's readers to see a picture of lasting love and creates a poetic masterpiece. Poe opens the poem by letting his readers know that what he is about to tell you happened "many and many years ago," which makes one wonder how well he could remember something that happened so long ago. In the second line Poe goes on to say that what happened occurred in "a kingdom by the sea." Putting the first and second lines together is reminiscent of the opening of one of the classic fairy tales "Once upon a time in a distant land", which could very well suggest that perhaps Poe is embellishing the truth to capture the readers' attention and create a funny and touching poem. Poe continues...... middle of the paper...... but Poe goes a step further and gives the poem the end of the classic love story between Romeo and Juliet. Poe states that he has tried to move on without his Annabel Lee but "the moon sends me memories of my beautiful Annabel Lee." Even though Annabel Lee is dead, he still thinks of her and "feels her bright eyes" even though the stars never rise. The night reminds him of his beautiful Annabel Lee, so he goes to her tomb and "lays down beside my darling, my darling, wife, my life, my bride, in her grave there by the sea." By the end of the poem you might believe that Poe himself lay down and died next to his beautiful Annabel Lee. Which brings us back to the classic romantic theme of the Romeo and Juliet tale.