Annabel Lee

About this book

Edgar Allan Poes dream poem is as close to music as words can ever come. First published on October 9 1849 two days after Poes death this haunting lyric poem is thought to have been written in memory of Poes young wife Virginia who died in 1847. Gilles Tibo has set the poem in his native Quebec where the narrator and his childhood love Annabel Lee discover the beauty of the rugged wind-swept Gasp Peninsula. But when Annabel Lee dies and is borne away as mysteriously as she had come the dream goes on refreshed each time that the moon beams and the stars shine down upon the great rock of Perc that becomes her sepulcher.