37+ The Haunted Palace Poem Pictures. There is an old curse and evilness on the ushers, this poem being an allegory for a once beautiful palace/family gone into mental and physical decline. To fully understand and appreciate this poem, one must first realize its context.
An ancestral home and name fallen into mental and physical decline.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing was the fair palace door, through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, and sparkling evermore, a troop of echoes, whose sweet duty was but to sing, in voices of surpassing beauty, the wit and wisdom of their king. An ancestral home and name fallen into mental and physical decline. Poe, is new to us. The haunted palace originally issued in the baltimore american museum for april, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, the fall of the house of usher, and published in it in burton's gentleman's magazine for september, 1839.