"Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea"
"Annabel Lee" is Poe's low, mournful, mystical Medieval ballad written to memorialize his beloved Virginia Clemm.
The virginal child-bride of Edgar Allan Poe died of consumption, a common enough disease, but her death rocked the already unstable and doomed versificator to his very core, so much so that he spent the rest of his life resurrecting and destroying her image, assuaging his guilt—or attempting to. She is Ligeia, Lenore, and Madeline Usher (or perhaps none of them).
