Read the excerpt from “In the Greenest of Our Valleys,” by Edgar Allan Poe.But evil things, in robes of sorrow,Assailed the monarch's high estate;(Ah, let us mourn, for never morrowShall dawn upon him, desolate!)And, round about his home, the gloryThat blushed and bloomedIs but a dim-remembered storyOf the old time entombed.How are the ideas in the excerpt similar to Poe’s ideas in the third stanza of "Annabel Lee"?
Answer
A
Both warn of the power of nature.
B
Both describe unexpected misfortune.
C
Both present violent revenge.
D
Both illustrate the end of love.
Explanation
Both passages show happiness or prosperity being suddenly overturned by misfortune. In the excerpt, “evil things” assail the monarch’s home, and its former glory becomes only a memory. In the third stanza of “Annabel Lee,” a sudden wind brings about Annabel Lee’s death, disrupting the speaker’s happy life with her. Thus, both describe unexpected misfortune.
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