Can anyone give me a synopsis of the poem The Haunted House by Edgar Allan Poe?
“The Haunted Palace” is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The 48-line poem was first released in the April 1839 issue of Nathan Brooks’ American Museum magazine. It was eventually incorporated into “The Fall of the House of Usher” as a poem written by Roderick Usher. The poem serves as an allegory about a king “in the olden time long ago” who is afraid of evil forces that threaten him and his palace, foreshadowing impending doom. As part of “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe said, “I mean to imply a mind haunted by phantoms — a disordered brain” referring to Roderick Usher. The poem takes a marked change in tone towards the second to last stanza. After discussing the wit and wisdom of the king, and song and beauty in the kingdom: But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate. The house and family are destroyed and, apparently, become phantoms. The beginning of the poem compares the structure with a human head. For example, the windows are eyes, its door representi
