Wednesday, October 24, 2012

"Annabel Lee" & "Alone" by Poe

Step 1: As you read Annabel Lee today, feel free to look at the copy I've given you or read the online text here.  
Step 2: Watch this video clip for a further analysis on Annabel Lee (consider the symbolic imagery presented in the clip).
Step 3: Complete the work packet I've given you and type your responses on a google doc (shared with me).  Type all sections on the google doc (look up on dictionary.com for the words to define).




Step 4: Next, take a look at the following clip of Poe's poem "Alone".  
Feel free to view the annotated version of "Alone" here if you are confused at all.


Step 5: For your blog post, explain your answer to the following questions in two or more sentences:

1. In what ways do the poems "Alone" and "Annabel Lee" relate to one another?
2. In what ways do the two poems relate to Poe's life? (hint: be sure you read the background knowledge portion on the "Annabel Lee" packet
3. (bonus question/optional) How do these two poems relate to "The Bells"?

It's always best to type responses on a google doc and then copy/paste into the comment thread!


46 comments:

  1. Both of them are about heaven. Both stories include heaven in them.

    Death, which his wife died. Demons, which he felt took his wife

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  2. the story alone and annabel lee relate because the narrator is alone in both when the wife died in annabel lee and in alone he is alone in his child hood.also they both have to do with events in his life

    these relates to poe's life because his wife really does die and then he is alone.also he was happy when he met his wife but then she dies and he is left to suffer.

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  3. 1. They are both about the death and happiness before the death

    2. They are about the death of late his wife.

    3. They are both happy talking about love and then it turns angry and sad. in “the bells” when they are happy then it is soft and slow, but as he gradually turns angry and sad it gets louder and fast.

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  4. 1)I think they relate because they are both about his wife Virginia.It relates because he write all these poems because he loves her so much.
    2)They relate to his life because he writes these because he misses his wife.He misses her so much that he write about being by her an how he feels that shes still here.

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  5. Edgar Poe felt lonely when he wrote these poems and they both are about him being/feeling lonely.

    They related to his life because they both relate to his wife dying and him being all alone.

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  6. The poems annabel lee and alone deal with the main character being alone and that makes him depressed.

    these poems relate to poe’s life because he writes about the events that happen in it like in annabel lee.

    annabel lee and alone relate to the bells because they all relate to bells being life or death and the people in the other stories die

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  7. 1) The poem Annabel Lee relates to alone because in alone he is alone by himself most of which he loved is gone and in annabel lee he loved her very much but lost her was back in the cold, alone, dark place.
    2) The two poems relate too Poes life because annabel lee is the poem about his life with annabel lee, his wife, like a brief summary. Alone talks about how he lost a lot of things in his life and his life was like a stormy storm what most people don't have.
    3) In the bells he was getting mad and lost some things and in annabel lee he lost his beloved wife and in alone he loses a lot of things and he goes crazy like in bells because of this.

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  8. 1.) The two poems relate by the so called ''loneliness''. I think this because in the first poem, Annabel Lee, she was taken away from the poet, and he never got over her, and in the second poem, Alone, he is all alone, and without a love, and feels other things, only he can feel, he feels this way because he lost someone he loved so much.

    2.) The poems relate to his life because he had lost his wife, I believe that these two poems really focus on her death, in the poem Annabel Lee, it was a cold chill that killed her, tuberculosis makes your body shiver, and have a cold sweat, and in the story Alone, he was describing how he felt about his wife passing, and wrote it with a deeper meaning.

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  9. 1.) These two stories relate to each other because Poe feels alone in both stories. In Annabel Lee, Poe felt alone because he lost his wife. In Alone Poe felt that he was not like other people and that he was corrupted with himself.

    2.) This can relate to Poe's life because Poe felt that he was not like other people. He knew that he didn't fit in so he was always kind of by himself.

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  10. Edgar Allan poe ¨Alone¨ is a story about Poe´s life annabel lee is about her life as well and how she is lonely and wants love. alone is saying that edgar was a very dark and lonely young child just the same as annabel lee was lonely. they relate because he is a very lonely man.the bells relate to both poems because it is all talking about someones life.

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  11. 1. His life is in his story, Annabel Lee represents him losing his wife. The poem Alone is when after everyone he loved dies, and he’s by himself while he watches the demon (tuberculosis) take everyone he loves away.

    2. Both poems have a deep emotion about his personal life, for instance his love life and how he struggled to not be different from others. How he expressed his love to others was different but deep .

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  12. 1. Annabel Lee and Alone are similar because they both involve being alone because at the end Annabel Lee’s love was alone after she died. In alone, it’s talking about him loving alone and it’s just him alone and no one else. They also have repeating lines in common. I think it’s better to repeat something that is important because it makes that stands out.
    2. This relates to Poe’s life because all the women in his life has been taken from him and he feels alone. His aunt, mom, and wife have all died and it’s making him have anger and thats where the demons come from.
    3. In “Alone” and “Annabel Lee”, you can inference that he is mad and sad that he lost his love and he feels alone which makes him mad. In the video “The Bells” he was throwing his papers and saying things in anger and it had his wife’s figure in the video which is anger towards that he lost her.

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  13. “Alone” and “Annabel Lee” both are serious and have a powerful meaning.
    These two poems both relate to Poe’s life because “Annabel Lee” was about Love and about his wife Virginia and the poem “Alone” is probably about his emotions and how his feelings are different from what others feel.
    I think they both of these poems relate to “The Bells” because it has to deal with emotions and feelings and all these poems have a certain meaning to them.

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  14. 1. they both have to do with a sad scary tone. They both include a storm. They also both include being alone.
    2. think that it shows he misses all of his family and that he thinks of the disease as a demon.
    And that his family died and he feels alone.

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  15. 1. These poems relate to each other by the outdoor nature wording and him being alone.
    2. These poems relate to their life because they feel alone because in Annabel Lee he is alone because his wife died and in alone its as if he feels alone.

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  16. 1. The two poems relate because they were by the sea and there was mention of demons. Poe is also filled with sorrow in both poems and that shows through his words to me.

    2. The two poems relate to Poe’s life because he is showing his sorrow of his life when he lost his wife. The poems also relate because he was lonely and the second poem is saying that he has been alone since she died.

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  17. Edgar Allan poe ¨Alone¨ is a story about Poe´s life annabel lee is about her life as well and how she is lonely and wants love. alone is saying that edgar was a very dark and lonely young child just the same as annabel lee was lonely. they relate because he is a very lonely man.the bells relate to both poems because it is all talking about someones life.

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  18. The both have to do with fear of a life and sadness , He was a sad man that always focused on life and death love and hate and betrayal .

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  19. For the first question They relate by each other fro m saying in my childhood no could relate better then in Annabel lee he said in my childhood we first met and etc They relate to his life by talking about his wife Virginia. When they like first met and how she died just like in Bells.They all relate together by talking about them together and him talking about his wife Virginia.

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  20. 1) In what ways does the poem "Alone" and "Annabel Lee" relate to one another? -The speaker in both poems feel sorrow about something. In 'Annabel Lee the speaker feel sorrow about losing his wife, and in 'Alone', the speaker feels sorrow because he was not the same source, he could not awaken in his sorrow, and he loved alone.

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  21. In what ways does the poem "Alone" and "Annabel Lee" relate to one another? That they all lost somebody in their life and loved somebody.


    2. In what ways do the two poems relate to Poe's life? It relate to poe’s life in many way because he lost his wife and love her as well.

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  22. 1. These poems can relate to one another because he loved alone at some point in both of them. He also talks about being a child in both of them.

    2. Annabel Lee relates to his life because his wife Virginia died and so did Annabel Lee. And Alone relates to Poe's life because he loved alone when his wife died.

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  23. “Alone” and “Annabel Lee” they can be related to one another because
    both of them talk about serious thing, and express deep emotion.


    Them poems relate to the life of Edgar Allan Poe because in “Annabel” Lee there is a hint of truth behind the poem which probably means there a hint of truth of behind “Alone”. His wife died of tuberculosis and so did the narrator's wife.

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  24. Both stories Alone, and Annabel Lee have a little in common. They both have repeat words. Both stories relate to poe's life. Alone is about his childhood, and Annabel lee is about how he lost his wife and how much love he had for his wife.

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  25. 1. In each of the poems he is very lonely. He has lost everyone around him is gone. In both it has to do with Demons or Angels. In alone it was a demon but in Annabel Lee it was the demons and angels.
    2. Just before Poe’s death he wrote the poem about the death of his wife Virginia. He writes about his wife being taken away by death.

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  26. 1) they both have love in them and both contain the emotion of sorrow. for Annabel its about losing his
    love for her because the kinsmen took her away. for alone its about his childhood and how sad it was.

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  27. 1.They both have rhyme and are romantic poems. They both loved someone at an early age.

    2."Annabel Lee relates to Poe's because he actually lost his wife and he buried her next to a sea.Alone relates to his life because it said that he was unusual in the story and in real life

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  28. Q1. In both poems the person has different feeling throughout the story.
    Q2. In both he is alone and his life is starting to change in his life.

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  29. Q1: In both of the posts, he has different feelings, of how his life was then, and how it is now.


    Q2: In both of the poems, he is all alone with no one by his side anymore.

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  30. Q1. in both of the story's they have many repeated words and there both deep poems about life.

    Q2. Both of there life's start changing and there both depressed poems like in Edgar poem he lost his wife and it changes his life.

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  31. The Poem “Alone” relates to “Annabel Lee” because they’re both stories about how Poe felt, and how he was different and alone. In Annabel Lee she died and he was left alone, in Alone he felt alone because he was different.

    The two poems relate to Poe’s life because in Annabel Lee it says “That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” he is basically saying she died from tuberculosis, his wife also died from tuberculosis. Alone is about Poe’s childhood.

    The poems are related because of the rhythm. “Annabel Lee” sounds like waves and “Bells” sounds like bells.

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  32. Q1. inn the poem he feeling sorrow from somebody that he love. He also cant have who he love any more

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  33. For question one both stories are related to each other because Poe is alone in Annabel Lee. Because his wife is dead. In alone Poe is alone because he thinks he is different from other people.

    They are both related because the wife is dead and Poe has to be alone

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  34. 1) They both show something they love even if it was like in the story alone he was in love alone.

    2)they both told a story on the poem about love and then a strom came and a cloud and death.

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  35. 1. In what ways do the poems "Alone" and "Annabel Lee" relate to one another?its a sad poem both of them are.





    2. In what ways do the two poems relate to Poe's life? (hint: be sure your read the background knowledge portion on the "Annabel Lee" packet

    this is about his wife how she died.





    3. (bonus question/optional) How do these two poems relate to "The Bells"?
    it is about the anger of poe about his wife dead

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  36. 1. Both Poems show how love, and other feelings in more than one way.
    2. Both relate to Poe's life by saying things that happen in his life.

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  37. Q1:"Alone" can relate to "Annabel Lee" because they both have something about a demon and about killing.

    Q2:They relate to Poe because he had the same things that happen in his poem in real life like he had a wife and when she died they buried her in a tomb and put her tomb in the sea and it also said that in the poem of Annabel Lee.

    Q3:They both are happy with love and and then in the two poems get mad and start yelling like in "The Bells".

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  38. 1. Both alone and Annabel Lee they both talk about how he feels sad and alone.
    2. Both the poems relate to his life because he loved people but then lost them and he feels horrible.

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  39. 1) they both are written by poe and they are about love.
    2) it relates to his life because he can't write a story without his life experience.

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  40. Q1: The 2 poems I think can relate to one another is because they both involve being lonely and losing somebody

    Q2: They both tell a story about someone they love.

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  41. Q2 he's both lost's somebody important in his life and want them back but cant and now he's alone.

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  42. Q1 The rhythm of the two are like some waves. And they both talk about demons and angels and two people are ill in both.

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  43. (question 1) in both poems they both had a lot of repeated words in the poems to express the emotion of what they are feeling

    (question 2) In both poems it was really sad because it was either somebody losing somebody that they loved.

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  44. #1. They relate because of the dark, detached feeling of the poem, also because of the differences in the poem. ei: Different because their love was different, in alone poe was different.

    #2.) they relate to his life because he feels alone, when his wife dies of TB. And Annabel lee dies of sickness. Also, as to how Poe feels alone in his life after he loses his wife (“Alone”)

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  45. 1. In what ways do the poems "Alone" and "Annabel Lee" relate to one another?
    They both talk about love
    They both include water (sea/torrent/river)
    They are both alone

    2. In what ways do the two poems relate to Poe's life? (hint: be sure your read the background knowledge portion on the "Annabel Lee" packet)

    Annabel Lee: This poem relates to his life because he is saying everything that he feels in his life. He is saying that his wife symbolizes Annabel Lee to him and how much they loved each other, and how much he was sad that she died. This is really happening to him and he is writing it in a poem.

    Alone: This poem relates to the narratorś life because he is saying how much he was lonely and and sad because his wife died and because of he doesn't have anyone to relate to. This is really happening to him and he is writing it in a poem.

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  46. Q1:i think they both relate to because it kinda touch on the subject of being alone so which kinda make it similar
    Q2: he feels alone just like loneliness, just like in Annabel lee his wife passed so he was lonely

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