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Help[Opinions] Re: Susannah or Annabel
in reply to a message by Martha
Bear in mind "Annabel Lee" is the name of a famous and very creepy poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The guy in the poem was in love with a girl named Annabel Lee, and she died. Now the guy is obsessed with her, sleeps in her grave, and defiantly claims that HE loves Annabel so much better than other people love, and he's certain the angels envied him for it!!! Really disturbed guy Poe wrote. But then, Annabel Lee never did anything wrong but love some guy who went bonkers when she died, so it's not like naming a girl Maleficent or something.
Susannah. The main association with that name is the nonsense song "Oh Susannah." "O Susannah, O don't you cry for me. I am bound to Alabama with a banjo on my knee." Not a negative song. Fun, rustic associations.
I like Annabel and Susannah in and of themselves. I wouldn't name a kid Annabel, but both my parents were English professors, so "Annabel Lee" looms larger in my mind than in most people's.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee
Susannah. The main association with that name is the nonsense song "Oh Susannah." "O Susannah, O don't you cry for me. I am bound to Alabama with a banjo on my knee." Not a negative song. Fun, rustic associations.
I like Annabel and Susannah in and of themselves. I wouldn't name a kid Annabel, but both my parents were English professors, so "Annabel Lee" looms larger in my mind than in most people's.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee
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