module 1 LISTENING ANNABEL LEE COMMUNICATION Listen to a song whose lyrics are taken from E.A. Poe s last poem. Complete it with the missing words. It was many and many a year ago, In a (1).............. 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 (2).............. Than to love and be loved by me. I was a (3).............. 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 wingéd seraphs of (4).............. Coveted her and me. And this was the (5).............. that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A (6).............. 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 (7).............. 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 (8).............. by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were (9).............. than we of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the (10).............. down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the (11).............. never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the (12).............. 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. (Music by Ralph Zephyrus, © 2014) 296