What Is a Highborn Kinsman
In This Kingdom by the Sea. Then, Still Without Saying That She Was Dead, the Speaker Tells Us How Her “Kinsman” (That Just Means a Member of Her Family) Came...
In this kingdom by the sea. Then, still without saying that she was dead, the speaker tells us how her “kinsman” (that just means a member of her family) came and took her away from him. Be sure to notice the word he uses to describe this kinsman. He calls him “highborn” which means aristocratic, noble.
What is the meaning of highborn kinsman?
In the poem “Annabel Lee ,” the highborn kinsmen are Annabel Lee’s relatives—probably her father and her brothers, since it normally would be close relations who take a dead body away for burial in a sepulchre.
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What do Annabel's relatives do with her?
Apparently a wind came down from the clouds, which made Annabel Lee sick and then eventually killed her. When this happened, her relatives came and took her away from the speaker, and shut her up in a tomb. … A little thing like death isn’t going to separate him from Annabel Lee. Not even angels or devils could do that.
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