Haunted Palace is a poem first published by Edgar Allan Poe as a single item but them incorporated into the story The Fall of the House of Usher as a song written by one of the characters, Roderick Usher. It was meant to be symbolic of how the fall of the house of Usher is similar to a person's decline into madness. The poem is an allegory about a king who fears an evil threatening his kingdom but is really about the deterioration of a human mind. The royal house described is symbolic of a person and the deterioration of the kingdom is the slow decay of the human mind.

As the poem progresses, each stanza is symbolic of a different part of the human body. For instance, the first stanza describes the head or mind, the second the hair, the third more of the head, fourth is the mouth...
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