Both Edwin A. Robinson, and Edgar A. Poe use diction and metaphor to create their hauntingly beautiful poems but use different types of imagery to illustrate each character's emotions. Luke Havergal written by Edwin A. Robinson is a poem about a man who has lost a lover and being talked into following her into the afterlife. Annabel Lee written by Edgar A. Poe is a poem also about a man who has just lost a lover and is remeniscing on their life together and how she was pretty much stolen from him.

In the both poems, the diction the authors chose to use is what helps set the style of the poem. It also helps the reader understand the characters and the situation. In Luke Havergal, the it tells the reader who the subject and narrator are. For example “Out of a grave I come to quench the kiss” (18). We know the narrator is saying they’re coming from beyond the grave so it’s probably a ghost or spirit. Because of the word kiss, we would assume a romantic relationship between the two. But the narrator uses the term ‘quench’. The dictionary definition of the word quench is to satisfy a thirst by drinking. If the narrator would kiss the subject to make him feel satisfied it’s possible that they didn’t love each other at all. The subject could have possibly loved the narrator but the narrator did not return those feelings. In Annable Lee the the narrator creates this atmosphere of a day-dream. The opening lines a god example; “It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea”(1-2). It’s a similar opening to that of a fairie tales “Once upon a time, in a far away land”. And this state if reverie continues even after the death of his beloved. “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee”(33-34). Both of these poems have a careful choice in words to allow the reader to understand how each narrator feels about their lost