how did the angels feel about the young lovers

The
speaker tells us that the angels were so envious of the happiness of the young lovers that they
causedto die by chilling her with a wind that "blew out of a cloud."

Probably what is more significant in the poem is the briefto Annabel Lee's
"kinsmen" who take her away from the speaker,

To
shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

One wonders if the rationale of the angels' envy is in reality afor
other reasons that Annabel Lee is taken away. It is also not clear if her actual death occurs
before or after the kinsmen separate the two lovers. The angels can be seen as a stand-in for
purely earthly forces that cause him to lose his love, though he says his soul will never be
"dissevered" from hers.

Anyone who knows something of Poe's life
reflexively associates Annabel with Virginia Clemm, Poe's cousin and wife, whom he married in
1836 when she was 13 and he 27. Virginia died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1847. Anis that
in the poem, Annabel Lee appears not to be related to the speaker but that a difference in
social class (her "highborn kinsmen") seems in some way responsible for her death. The
fact that the poem is so moving and memorable probably is at least partly due to our knowledge
of its real-life backstory. It's one in many instances through history in which art derives part
of its meaning from the artist's life, especially in the cases of those dying young, as both Poe
and Virginia did.