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Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe


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.





I was a child and she 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 wingèd 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, chilling


My beautiful Annabel Lee;


So that her highborn kinsmen 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 the cloud by night,


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 feel 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 sounding sea.






Annabel Lee (1849)

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The last complete poem written by Poe, it was published shortly after his death in 1849. The speaker of the poem talks about a lost love, Annabel Lee, and may have been based on Poe's own relationship with his wife Virginia, though that is disputed.







優美的安娜貝爾．李　寒徹顫慄早逝去
作者：大江健三郎
譯者：許金龍
出版社：北京:人民文學: 2009 聯經出版公司 ：2009年

書名脫胎自美國詩人艾倫坡著名詩作〈安娜貝爾．李〉，講述二戰後為美國人所收養的日本國際級女演員櫻闖蕩國際影壇多年後，回國參與記念德國作家亨利希． 封．克萊斯特跨國性電影拍攝計畫。主催此計畫的電影製片人木守，找來從大學時代就認識的社會運動伙伴小說家大江擔綱電影的劇本家，他嘗試將原作的抗暴情節 與日本農民的反壓迫的起義事件連結，而以女演員櫻為中心的拍攝，女英雄的形象也取代原著以男性為故事主角的設定；小說家大江的母親，在戰後不惜冒黑市交易 風險、也要維持地方劇團演出的「說故事者」使命，則分在演員櫻、小說家大江以及承襲母親故事採集者、長期在四國推行女權運動的小說家的妹妹身上顯現；但這 個拍攝計畫卻因一個涉及櫻的殘忍祕密而宣告終止。







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Auden 的 Introduction

Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years ... today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.

(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. repr. In The Recognition of Edgar Allen Poe, ed. E.W. Carlson (1970). Edgar Allan Poe, introduction (1950).)