The Haunted Palace

The Haunted Palace Everyone has check overn a once sightly estate fallen into disrepair expensive satin curtains, ripped and stained high support columns, garbled and crumbling moss covering the once brightly pigmented exterior. People look at it, sigh with disappointment at what was and no longer is, and then live on. The cause of ruin is rarely known, but the effects are clear. This is the thought portrayed in Edgar Allen Poes The Haunted Palace. Poe paints a picture of an graceful manor with spectacular features that comes under the influence of evil and thus waterfall to pieces.Upon closer inspection, though, the contributor begins to see that the meaning of the poem delves much deeper than the ending of a augury it is the forlornness of the forgiving understanding that truly concerns Poe. The two-fold meaning is central to the poem and once the pattern of symbolism is established, the other(a) details fall nicely into channelize. Poe uses language to establish the brilliance that pervades the home plate and symbolism inside the poem equating the admit to a man caput to submit its susceptibility to corruption.Poes verbiage emphasizes the initial majesty of the house. At first, the house is radiant (4), glorious (9), happy (17), fair (26), sparkly (28), and beautiful (31). Poe goes as far as saying that good angels tenanted the house (2) and the home is softer and kinder than angels clothing (7). Then, in the fifth stanza, the scene changes drastically the castle is no longer majestic and stately, it is inhabited by evil and is in disarray. It is now permeated by sorrow (33) and is desolate (35).The sudden shift from excite words to mournful ones alerts the reader to the dire change that has taken place in the house. After a second reading, the audience begins to notice a pattern of symbolism. Poe equates the Thoughts dominion (5), banners, (9), windows (18), door (26), and Echoes (29) to a humans head, hair, eyeball, m asideh, a nd voice. The hair is flowing and beautiful, the eyes are understanding and see everything transparently, the mouth has ruby gums and pearly teeth, and the voice carries in it the wit and wiseness of the mind it speaks for.It is clear that this mind has brilliant ideas (spirits) (19) invariably formulating and expanding within it. The reader is, presumably, familiar with the sight of a mansion that is clearly luxurious. The reader may not, however, be able to picture a clearly brilliant mind. Poes use of symbolism enables the reader to visualize the brilliance and wealthiness of the monarchs mind prior to its destruction. Symbolism is still inborn to the poem in the final stanzas, even though the scene has changed.The once magnificent mansion has been invaded by evil. The windows are now red-litten (42), meaning the eyes are red and evil. The spirits still move through the house (the ideas still move in the mind), but now in a distorted way. Instead of Echoes (a voice) full of wisdom, a hideous throng (47) rushes out of the door (the mouth), that will laugh but smile no more than (48). The eerie mad laughter escaping the mouth of the king is the most awful aspect of change.Where the kings mind was once strong and productive, constantly growing, it is now perverted and ruined. The reader can see the house paint chipped, windows broken, a manifestation of evil. This comparison allows the reader to picture the broken mind of the once great king. The mansion looked impenetrable, invulnerable. But it was nevertheless the victim of evil. The mind was corrupted in the same manner and Poes symbolism allows for a more tangible representation of the process.Poes use of symbolism and diction provide a concrete description of the minds destruction when compared to the destruction of a great estate. The drastic change in diction from words of elegance and reverence to words of sorrow and despair demonstrate the magnitude of the change occurring in the house and m ind. The symbolism allows the reader to more accurately envision the process and effects of the minds devastation as it can envision a house falling to pieces. Poes techniques allow the reader to solidify an abstraction in order to get across it.