by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom 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 thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child 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 wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind 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 angels, 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 cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. Evaluate the credibility of the speaker in “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe based on the voice and choice of a speaker

In the excerpt from "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker gives the impression to be a man in whom he is in love with Annabel Lee, and they seem to be deeply in love. However, his common sense is doubted when he claims the angels kill Annabel because they are jealous of her and when he expresses that he is lying on his lover's tomb. As a result of his insanity, the accuracy of the information in the poem is questioned, which makes him an unreliable narrator. Nevertheless, he details the story with such intensity and passion that different narrator would not have caused the same effect.