True love can overcome all difficulties, no matter how hard. This is proven in the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, when the women he loved perished. The poem was written in the United States on October 9,1849. In fact, it was the last complete poem he wrote before he died. The poem is about the narrator falling in love with Annabel Lee and expressing his love in such powerful way that even angels were jealous of their love. Edgar Allan Poe shows through his dark mood and imagery that true love can overpower anything.

Poe’s mood throughout the story shows his mourning and love. Poe’s writes the poem as if he was the young lover. In the beginning, he believes their love is the best and strongest. “But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;” (2). Then he begins describing Annabel Lee dying but expressing that he he still loves her deeply. As it says in the text, ”Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee” (4). Finally, he talks about her dead in her tomb, “In her tomb by the sounding sea” (6). He shows his mourning through the dark mood. 

In Annabel Lee, Poe uses descriptive wording to create imagery. Poe shows he loves Annabel Lee by describing her as an angel and how she is royalty when she really isn’t. He also describes their love as a kingdom by the sea. This is proven in the text when it says, “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” (4). As you read this Poe creates castles by the sea and angels frowning upon them. He says their love is so great that even angels envy them. “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,” (5).

The message Poe intended to convey through this poem was that true love overcomes anything, even death. Poe proves this by still being in love with Annabel Lee even after she dies. “For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams / 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee / And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes / 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee / In her tomb by the sounding sea” (6). This shows how committed the young lover is. “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,”(6). Here it describes how he spends his life with her even after she’s dead.

Annabel Lee is about a young man and his lover. They then fall into a forbidden love and soon his lover falls ill and dies. Then he stays close to her tomb for the rest of his life. Poe uses dreary mood and imagery to prove that true love can prevail anything.