Poem
...s for her. This is shown when he explains his short term pitiless suffering. He remembers his “tantalized spirit” was tempted by material possessions but he “blandly reposes” to forget. He describes his spirit as no longer being in ecstasy but the holier odor revitalizes his spirit and makes it “lie happily”. This revitalized by “bathing in many a dream of the truth and the beauty of Annie”. His lover Annie looks at him and cries as she “tenderly kisses” him and “prays to the angels”. He says “that you shutter to look at me, thinking me dead” when really his heart and spirit is more alive than ever and he filled with Annie’s love. Although he is technically dead, he lives on because of Annie’s love. He says that his heart is “brighter than all of the many stars in the sky” with her love contrasting with the “horrible throbbing” he felt in the beginning of the poem. You would expect the tone of this poem to be somber because it describes death and the loss of a loved one. This is not the case however in this poem. The subject is happy because the suffering of life has ended, and the he could now rest peacefully knowing that he has loved Annie. To convey the message, Edgar Allan Poe used many poetic devices. In this particular poem, Poe did not use alliteration as frequently as in some of his other work. He did however use this device once during the story when he said, “the sighing and sobbing” and “pitiless pain”. He did however use assonance when he said “moaning and groaning”, “horrible throbbing”, and “old agitations”. Poe did not repeat any specific phrases throughout the poem, but did repeat various vowel and consonant sounds in the form of alliteration and assonance. There was no specific rhyming pattern in this poem but he starts the poem off with external rhyming when he says “Thank Heaven! The crisis- The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last-”. Although not continuous, in the beginning of most of the stanzas the second and fourth line rhyme and the sixth line is a the same word as in the second. Internal rhyming is also utilized when he says “groaning and moaning” in the second stanza. The fever was a symbol for being dead because when a person dies they are cold and when he says that the fever called “Living” is ...