This handout includes Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee. A haunting poem about eternal, idealized love and obsessive grief, believed to be inspired by his deceased wife, Virginia. The poem uses Gothic imagery, repetitive sounds, and a melancholic tone to explore themes of lost innocence, mortality, and love's enduring, almost supernatural, power. In addition to the poem, teachers are provided with a choice of questions for their students exploring themes of obsessive love vs. true love, the speak