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Found and read in my room.
"Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot y.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren eld
Frozen with snow."
Life is a broken-winged bird without a dream, life is like a barren eld frozen over with snow without a
dream.
The meaning is rather straightforward ; don't let you dreams go.
It is personal to me because I have a problem of letting my dreams go to waste, and this poem helps
me to pursue what I have forgotten/ thrown away. Why do people tend to throw away their dreams
and desires are time passes on? As kids, we are all dreamers, and look onto the future so brightly.
Why does this all go to waste?
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Found and read in my room.
"But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
This poem is simply about Poe loving and losing the love of his life, the girl of his dreams. He
compares her to many beautiful things, and wants to be with her forever. I am unsure of the
theme of this poem.
Her symbolizes her as someone so perfect that the angels in heaven get jealous of her beauty, which
was the reason for her death. The poem has a very light tone to it before Annabel Lee's death, which it
then turns much darker and more sorrowful.
I have never really been in love, and this poem is an interesting aspect of someone who has been.
Loving and losing seems like a terrible thing, and that is possibly what Poe is trying to say. Is it?
Most likely this poem was just made to help him cope with his loss, but I'm not too sure. This
poem is poetic because it gives a strong feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the guy, especially
from the way he writes it.