Poetry Annabel Lee Slam Poetry

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
“Annabel Lee” is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, the 'father' of American gothic and
the detective story genre. He wrote "Annabel Lee" in 1849, several months before his mysterious
untimely demise at the age of 40. (Rabies, syphilis, alcohol abuse, poison or brain tumour are just
some of the theories surrounding his death.) Although the poem may refer to a number of women
in Poe's life, most acknowledge it to be in memory of Virginia Clemm, Poe's wife and cousin who
married him at the age of thirteen and who died in 1847 from consumption, before she turned
twenty-five.
Vocabulary: Find the synonyms in the poem.

1. envied, jealous of ____________________
2. tomb, grave __________________
3.cut apart, separate ___________________
4. angels _______________
5. night-time _________________
6. wealthy, aristocratic, of noble birth ______________________
7. carried _________________
8. shines _______________
9. relatives (aunts, uncles, etc.) __________________
Comprehension
1. How did Annabel Lee die? A She drowned. B She caught a cold. C She was entombed alive
by her family who disagreed of her and the narrator’s love. D The angels killed her out of envy.
2. How does the narrator spend his nights? A Looking at the moon and the stars as they remind him of
Annabel Lee B Lying beside Annabel Lee’s dead body
3. Find the facts: Mark each one true (T) or false (F).
a. The poet fell in love with Annabel long before he wrote the poem.
b. The poet and Annabel lived on an island.
c. Only demons could dissever the souls of the lovers.
d. The moon reminds the poet of Annabel’s smiling face.
e. The poet is always thinking of Annabel Lee.
4. Go beyond the facts: Which one of the following could you conclude from the poem?
a. The poet means to seek revenge for the death of his love.
b. The poet hates the sea because it reminds him of his love.
c. The poet will never love anyone so deeply again.
d. The poet’s love for Annabel is still so intense that she seems real to him
Poetry
1. As well as rhyming words at the end of a line, Poe uses internal rhymes. Find two examples.
2. Which 3 words, central to this poem, rhyme?
SLAM POETRY
Poetry written to be performed in front of a live audience began with the Beat Poets in the 1960s and was
usually accompanied by Jazz music. This tradition, associated with (white) misfits and/or academics who
criticized mediocracy and complacency, was democratized by slam poetry competitions which were more
inclusive and primarily focused on social issues and injustices. In addition to music, visual aids are also
used when performing slam poetry. In many aspects, slam poetry overlaps with hip-hop and the difference
between the two is not always easily discernible.
Beat Poets Slam poetry
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the
“But this is America, a place where outsiders find it
ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be difficult to become a resident
saved, desirous of everything at the same time, This is the place where our ball players can potentially
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace earn more than our president
thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow This is the home of top models, TV shows, and actors
roman candles exploding like spiders across the The place where cable is flooded with violence, rock
bands, and rappers
stars.” – Jack Kerouac
A place where we’re created equal but we use racial
slurs for practice
This is home where almost everything is done
backwards
This is where 36.3% of our kids are born bastards
But I tell you to forget that number because every
year it grows faster “- America In 4 Minutes by
Branden Wellington
“Somewhere in America” - GetLit

Here in America, in every single state, they have a set of standards for every subject
A collection of lessons that the teacher's ____________ to teach by the end of the term
But the greatest lessons you'll ever teach us will not come from your syllabus
The greatest lessons you will ever teach us, you will not even remember
You never told us what we weren't allowed to say
We just learned how to __________ our tongues
Now somewhere in America, there is a child holding a copy of "Catcher in the Rye" and there is a child
holding a gun
But only one of these things have been ____________ by their state government
And it's not the one that can rip _______________ flesh
It's the one that says "fuck you" on more pages than one
Because we must control what the people say, and how they think
And if they want to become the overseer of their own selves, then we'll show them a real one
And somewhere in America, there's a child sitting at his mother's computer, reading the homepage of the
KKK's website, and that's open to the public
But that child will never have read "To Kill a Mockingbird" because the school has banned it for its use of
the "N" word
Maya Angelou is _____________because we're not allowed to talk about rape in school
We were taught that 'just because something happens, doesn't mean you are to talk about it'
They built us brand new shopping malls so that we'll forget where we're really standing
On the bones of the Hispanics, on the bones of the slaves, on the bones of the Native Americans, on the
bones of those who ____________ just to speak!
Transcontinental Railroad to Japanese Internment Camps
There are things missing from our history books
But we were taught that it is better to be silent, than to make them uncomfortable
Somewhere in America, private school girls search for hours through boutiques, trying to find the prom
dress of their dreams
While kids on the south side spending hours searching through the 'lost and found' 'cause winter's coming
soon and that's the only jacket they have
Kids are late to class for working the midnight shift
They give awards for best _______________, but not for keeping your family off the streets
These kids will call your music ghetto, they will tell you ‘you don’t talk right’
Then they’ll get in the backseat of a car with all their friends singing ‘ bout how “They’re ‘bout that life”
and “we can’t stop”
Somewhere in America, schools are promoting self confidence
While they whip out their scales and shout out your body fat percentage in class
While heftier girls are hiding away, and the slim fit beauties can’t help but giggle with pride
The preppy kids go thrift shopping ‘cause they think it sounds real fun
But we don’t ‘cause that’s all we got money for
‘Cause momma works for the city, momma only gets paid once a month
Somewhere in America, a girl is getting felt up by a grown man on the subway
She’s still in her school uniform and that’s part of the ____________
It’s hard to run in knee socks and Mary Jane’s, and all her male teachers know it too
Coaches cover up the star players raping freshmen after the dance
Women are killed for rejecting dates, but God ___________ I bring my girlfriend to prom
Girls black out drunk at the after party, take a picture before her wounds wake her
How many pixels is your __________ worth? What’s a 4.0 to a cold jury?1
What’d you learn in class today?
Don’t walk fast, don’t speak loud, keep your hands to yourself, keep your head down
Keep your eyes on your own paper, if you don’t know the answer, fill in “C”
Always wear earbuds when you ride the bus alone
If you feel like someone’s following you, pretend you’re on the phone
A teacher never fails, only you do
Every state in America, the greatest lessons, are the ones you don’t remember learning
1
You can be a good student (4.0 GPA), but that will do nothing for you if a jury’s already set to convict you. They may not be
speaking of a literal jury: sometimes people won’t believe you regardless of what kind of a person you actually are.

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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

I was a child and she was a child,

And this was the reason that, long ago,

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Vocabulary: Find the synonyms in the poem.

“Somewhere in America” - GetLit

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