I have concluded, after over a decade of independent research, that this poem was not written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rather, he plagiarized both poems from Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of the poet Mathew Franklin Whittier, who wrote both poems in tribute to his late wife, Abby. Poe probably re-wrote the last four lines to change it from the woman returning in spirit visitation dreams, to something more macabre to fit his own sensibilities.
@@YitisI1985Paradoxically, there's too much evidence for a video. I did make a few 2-3 years ago when I hadn't discovered so much of it. It took me 59 pages to present it all in a paper. There's not so much evidence regarding "Annabel Lee," but there is some. Most of the evidence concerns "The Raven." Mathew couldn't publicly protest, because he was involved in anti-slavery activities and couldn't risk anyone identifying members of the Underground Railroad if he got sued and put on the stand. But he left a lot of coded messages in his published works. It takes time to decode and explain them. I can give you one piece of evidence about Annabel Lee. Where the poem says that Annabel's "high borne kinsmen" came and took her away, that was literal in Mathew's life. Abby's father was a marquis; one week before she died, two of her sisters took her from Portland, where she and Mathew were living, back to her family home in East Haverhill, Mass. Mathew almost always wrote from real life.
I have concluded, after over a decade of independent research, that this poem was not written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rather, he plagiarized both poems from Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of the poet Mathew Franklin Whittier, who wrote both poems in tribute to his late wife, Abby. Poe probably re-wrote the last four lines to change it from the woman returning in spirit visitation dreams, to something more macabre to fit his own sensibilities.
You should make a video on TH-cam about this, I would be interested to see a video about that.
@@YitisI1985Paradoxically, there's too much evidence for a video. I did make a few 2-3 years ago when I hadn't discovered so much of it. It took me 59 pages to present it all in a paper. There's not so much evidence regarding "Annabel Lee," but there is some. Most of the evidence concerns "The Raven." Mathew couldn't publicly protest, because he was involved in anti-slavery activities and couldn't risk anyone identifying members of the Underground Railroad if he got sued and put on the stand. But he left a lot of coded messages in his published works. It takes time to decode and explain them. I can give you one piece of evidence about Annabel Lee. Where the poem says that Annabel's "high borne kinsmen" came and took her away, that was literal in Mathew's life. Abby's father was a marquis; one week before she died, two of her sisters took her from Portland, where she and Mathew were living, back to her family home in East Haverhill, Mass. Mathew almost always wrote from real life.