“Annabel Lee”

Chat with a partner – what is the gist of the poem? What is this poem about?

Stanza Summaries

One sentence stanza summary

Stanza 1

Stanza 2

Stanza 3

Who ? What happened?

Annabel Lee lived by the sea and loves the narrator.

Stanza Visual

Draw a doodle for each stanza

Stanza 1

Stanza 2

Stanza 3

“Annabel Lee” Theme

What are 3 events that happen in the poem?

1. Annabel Lee and the narrator fall in love.

2.

3.

“Annabel Lee” Theme

What is a theme, or life lesson, that we can infer from these events in the poem? 1. It’s better to have loved and lost

than never to have loved at all.2. True love never dies.3. Don’t fall in love when you are

young.4. You should not marry below your

class.

“Annabel Lee” Theme

What lines in the poem support our theme?

Look at the last two stanzas of the poem to see if we can find some lines that supports our theme of true love never dies.

“Annabel Lee” One-Pager1. Draw a short comic strip (3 panels) of

the 3 major events of the poem that support the theme. (write a brief caption for each panel)

2. What is the theme of “Annabel Lee”? The theme of “Annabel Lee” is…

3. Find one piece of evidence in the poem to support the theme.

4. Explain how your evidence supports the theme. These lines support the theme because…

“Annabel Lee”

The theme of “Annabel Lee” is _________________________________________.

“Textual evidence/line from poem”

These lines support the theme because ___________________________________________________________________________________.