Allen Poe和他的Annabel Lee

Allen Poe，这位近代非常著名的美国世人，其作品充满了忧伤的感怀，往往能最大的激发人的同情心和对悲哀的审美意识。他的《Annabel Lee》发表于成名前期，悲哀和伤感的风格已经可见一斑；其中表现的真挚爱情和悲痛欲绝的心态让人黯然泪下，而看过以后又对其美妙的韵律回味不已。这是一首十音部诗歌（每句分别为10个和7个音节），押韵格式为abab，完全模仿莎士比亚的商体诗，但是与莎氏积极向上，清新脱俗的风格迥然不同，蔚然自成一家。诗中遣词比较平实，甚至有点口语化，但是表现的意境却很高远。

ANNABEL LEE 

by Edgar Allan Poe 
(1849) 

It was many and many a year ago, 
   In a kingdom by the sea, 
That a maiden there lived whom you may know 
   By the name of ANNABEL LEE;-- 
And this maiden she lived with no other thought 
   Than to love and be loved by me. 
She was a child and I was a child, 
   In this kingdom by the sea, 
But we loved with a love that was more than love-- 
   I and my Annabel Lee-- 
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven 
   Coveted her and me. 

And this was the reason that, long ago, 
   In this kingdom by the sea, 
A wind blew out of a cloud by night 
   Chilling my Annabel Lee; 
So that her high-born kinsman came 
   And bore her away from me, 
To shut her up in a sepulchre 
   In this kingdom by the sea. 

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, 
   Went envying her and me:-- 
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, 
   In this kingdom by the sea) 
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling 
   And killing my Annabel Lee. 

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:-- 

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams 
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes 
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side 
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, 
   In her sepulchre there by the sea-- 
   In her tomb by the side of the sea.