Lenore (poem)

The poem concludes: "No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!"

Lenore's fiancé, Guy de Vere, finds it inappropriate to "mourn" the dead; rather, one should celebrate their ascension to a new world.

Unlike most of Poe's poems relating to dying women, "Lenore" implies the possibility of meeting in paradise.

[2] Poetically, the name Lenore emphasizes the letter "L" sound, a frequent device in Poe's female characters including "Annabel Lee", "Eulalie", and "Ulalume".

Its final form was published in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal while Poe was its editor.