Compare The Highwayman And Annabel Lee - 787 Words

William Shakespeare once wrote, â€Å"the course of true love never did run smooth.† Shakespeare’s philosophy, extracted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, appropriately pertains to the storylines of Edgar Allen Poe’s â€Å"Annabel Lee† and Alfred Noyes â€Å"The Highwayman†. Within Poe’s â€Å"Annabel Lee†, the narrator depicts of the true love that he and his â€Å"Annabel Lee† harbored but it evokes resentful angels to pursue and murder his lover. As within Noyes’ â€Å"The Highwayman†, the narrator portrays of a love so pure between the highwayman and Bess, the landlord’s daughter, in which Bess willingly sacrifices her life in hopes of saving the highwayman from being killed but unfortunately, leaves both lovers dead. Both Poe and Noyes managed to exercise certain†¦show more content†¦Since â€Å"Annabel Lee† and â€Å"The Highwayman† are both narrative poems, the speakers of each story influence certain features of the plots. The narrator of â€Å"Annabel Lee† is also the affected lover who is recalling the catastrophic incident that is his lover’s death. Since he is actually a part of the storyline, he conveys the plot the way he had experienced it as it began â€Å"with a love that was more than love† but progressed onward to the â€Å"killing [of his] Annabel Lee†. The passionate narrating establishes his reliability as a narrator as the audience can truly sense his pain. However, the narrator of â€Å"The Highwayman† is not involved with any aspect of the storyline and, therefore, tells the story from a bystander point of view. Even though the narrator is not directly impacted by the events, they are still able to captivate the audience by utilizing lifelike elements, such as the â€Å"tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot† of the horse, to institute their trustworthiness as a narrator. Therefore, both narrators within â₠¬Å"Annabel Lee† and â€Å"The Highwayman† add different elements of persuasion to their narratives to establish an authentic storyline. The utilization of symbolism within both poems enables the narrators to indicate what drives their stories: love. Both Poe and Noyes employ the symbols of â€Å"moon† and â€Å"moonlight† within their poems as they each signify a different aspect in their characters’ relationships. The narrator of â€Å"Annabel Lee†Show MoreRelatedThe Basic Set Up Of Poetry1445 Words   |  6 Pagesan extended metaphor poem of their own. I had them to pick an object (train) and a live object (horse) that they could compare it to and create an extended metaphor poem. They did not name either objects in their poems and the class had to guess what the objects were. Lesson 6 I opened this lesson by defining narrative poetry. We used â€Å"popcorn reading† to read the â€Å"Highwayman†. To determine if this poem was a narrative poem or not I had the students to complete a plot chart while we were reading