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Essay / Literary Symbolism In Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The use of personification “That the wind came out of the cloud at night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (Poe line 25-26) is used to personify a human, don't interpret that the wind actually killed her because the wind can't kill people. The use of the moonbeam is another use of personification to portray his sadness since Annabel's death. “For the moon never shines, without bringing me dreams” (Poe line 34), the moon neither shines nor causes.