The use of personification "That the wind came out of the clouds at night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee" (Poe's lines 25-26) is used to personify a human being, do not interpret that the wind actually killed her because the wind cannot kill people. The use of the radiant moon is another use of personification to portray his darkness after Annabel's death "For the moon never shines, bringing me no dreams" (Poe line 34), the moon shines not and causes