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Greetings, I have trouble with my homework about Annabel Lee and wondering if someone can help me. The question is "Identify those lines in the poem that most clearly allow you to follow the “story” of the poem. Then retell the story of the poem in prose. Finally, explain what the poem loses when it becomes a prose story rather than a poem. How does the poem’s rhythm and rhyme, as well as other poetic elements, support its theme or message? Use evidence from the text, as well as from comparing your retelling with that of the poem itself, to support your response."

Moonrise · Accepted Answer

When I read your question, it's not clear to me because I don't know the poem and you haven't provided a link for it. So I look it up on google and read it. Usually I don't understand English poems, but this time when I read this one, I really feel it's different; it's much clearer than others. I could put a lot of possibilities about it. Maybe because it's about a story. It looks like a story too. The first time I read it, I get my first impression about what's written and why it came that way. I don't depend on it, though. So again, I google the poem's clarification to read the analytics, what was written about it, what were the thinkers' or poets‘ opinions regarding it, and find out that their thinking are different than mine. In fact, some of their opinions are not convincing to me. I don't think that the narrator meant what they understood. Therefore I google the story of the narrator and I got a full picture that fit to be another explanation of the poem. But it won't be in your favor to mention it because I'm afraid it might be distracting/confusing to you. It's better to follow English interpretations. Meanwhile, I suggest you to do like what I did in order to get a lot of info then you can make your own judgment and analytics that helps you to do your homework.

Keep in mind that the answer sometimes could be taken from the same question. For example. this part:

anonymousFinally, explain what the poem loses when it becomes a prose story rather than a poem. How does the poem’s rhythm and rhyme, as well as other poetic elements, support its theme or message?

Look at what I colored in blue. It's the answer to the previous question. Otherwise, why would they have state those aspects.

So what the poem loses when it becomes a prose story rather than a poem?

It will lose the poem’s rhythm and rhyme, as well as other poetic elements. It's enough for this question but not for the last one.

anonymousHow does the poem’s rhythm and rhyme, as well as other poetic elements, support its theme or message? Use evidence from the text, as well as from comparing your retelling with that of the poem itself, to support your response."

For the final question, you need to mention "How", because they want you to provide an evidence from the text. So you have to read the poem, retell the story in prose. Then give evidence that supports your answer. Again I suggest you to do what I did above.

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