Thursday, 22 January 2009

Annabel Lee

Regarding the influence of Poe in many different artistic areas, Marisa (thank you very much) has kindly remind us that there is a famous song by Radio Futura based on Annabel Lee, which is one of Poe's most celebrated poems.



Nevertheless, this is not the only version of this poem. There is another Spanish version by Bunbury -which is in fact a cover of Radio Futura's cover-, and I was also able to find a classical version by a choir, a rock-ballad version by an Israeli musician called Gilad Hesseg, and another cover by Stevie Nicks, a really really famous American singer.

If you wish, you can read the original poem in www.poemhunter.com, a fantastic poetry site. Click here if you want to be directly redirected to the poem.

It goes without saying that you can add your comments to this post and say which version did you liked the most, or just to share with us any other interesting findings.

Keep readin'!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It reminds me to Blue Savannah Song

José Luis Cabello said...

Thank you for this post. Very interesting.