Annabel Lee deals with a narrator grieving the loss of his beautiful lover, as it is often the case in Poe's work, but in this particular case, the writer emphasizes the lovers' youth on several occasions: " I was a child and she was a child " 97 (v. 7), or " Our love it was stronger by far than the love / Of those who were older than we ? / Of many far wiser than we Composed shortly before the poet's death, the poem's, pp.98-125 ,
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