# Annabel Lee — Poetry character guide

> Annabel Lee in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** de Leon

**First appearance:** 0075-annabel-lee

## Who they are

A maiden loved so purely that angels grew envious, her memory becomes the tide that binds a grieving speaker to her tomb by the sea.

## Relationships

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/narrator)

_romantic_

Annabel Lee is the narrator's deceased childhood love, whose memory is cherished with eternal devotion and grief.

### [Edgar Allan Poe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/edgar_allan_poe)

_romantic_

Annabel Lee is directly linked to Poe as a personal symbol of lost love, possibly autobiographical.

## In the story

### [To ⸻ “I Heed Not That My Earthly Lot”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-i-heed-not-that-my-earthly-lot)

Implied beloved who sorrows for the narrator's fate.

### [To One in Paradise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-one-in-paradise)

The lost beloved, taken across the sea to a titled age and crime.

### [To Zante](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-zante)

Implied as the lost maiden remembered on the island's slopes.

### [Annabel Lee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/annabel-lee)

The beloved maiden who lived only to love and be loved by the narrator, killed by a chilling wind sent by envious angels.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced as the subject of Poe's poem 'Annabel Lee,' which expresses his undying love for his deceased bride.

## Links

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