“If the people we love are stolen from us the way to have them live on is never stop loving them” if you have ever lost anyone you love this quote from James O’Barr may be meaningful to you. A work of literature that may also interest anyone who has ever lost someone they love is the poem “Annabel Lee” written by Edgar Allen Poe. In this poem Poe speaks of his own personal experience with the loss of a loved one. The reason this work of literature may be helpful to anyone that has lost someone is because it is very relatable Poe uses a lot of symbolism in his poem to give it more meaning. The topics that Edgar Allen Poe brings up in his poem are love, the symbol of Annabel Lee and envy and how they all are a factor in losing a loved one and finding a way to cope with that loss.