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Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
Poem: The Haunted Palace
Comment 4 of 4, added on March 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 PM.
Fred from Poland, you're a jackass.
Of course Poe was drunk when he wrote this poem...he was an alchoholic. He was drunk everytime he wrote a poem. Not trying to trash talk you or anything, but seriously. Who calls people "idiots" for liking a poem? Who insults people via poem website for no reason? I hope you feel like a bigger man on the inside. Because to all of us, you look like a total douche bag.
Trey from United States
Comment 3 of 4, added on February 23rd, 2006 at 11:03 AM.
this poem was poe's worst poem ever. It was poorly written and it had no point to it. I think Poe was drunk when he wrote this and that you all are pathetic and stupid for enjoying this. You are all dumber for reading this poem. May god have mercy on your souls for this.
Fred from Poland
Comment 2 of 4, added on December 8th, 2005 at 8:59 PM.
The poem is about a head. Each paragraph describes a different part of a once sane head that has now gone mad, hence the maniacal laughter at the end. It starts with the hair, then to the eyes, next the mouth, and then ends on the brain which has turned 'desolate' and is haunted...the person in the poem has gone mad.
On the surface, this is a straight-forward, spooky, campfire poem whose meaning is superficial and is, in fact, about a haunted palace. The allegorical meaning behind it becomes more appearent, however, in a closer second reading. The way the poem is split up, the diction that is used, and the denouement with the mad laughter at the end, proves that there is most definitely a hidden meaning, which I think can be agreed, it is that of a head.
Sharlene from United States
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Fred from Poland, you're a jackass.
Of course Poe was drunk when he wrote this poem...he was an alchoholic. He was drunk everytime he wrote a poem. Not trying to trash talk you or anything, but seriously. Who calls people "idiots" for liking a poem? Who insults people via poem website for no reason? I hope you feel like a bigger man on the inside. Because to all of us, you look like a total douche bag.
Trey from United States