Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly after his birth, his father deserted him and his mother passed away soon after that. He grew up to be a troubled young man. He fell in love with his beloved wife, and shortly after that she died. He passed away alone and unhappy. Poe's life was almost as dark and depressing as the fiction he produced. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," he uses a great deal of symbolism to represent how the Usher family is. We, as readers, see how deep the meaning of the story associates with how twisted Poe's mind was. To enhance the meaning, he uses a poem, a painting, and the novel Mad Trist, to let the reader know how the Ushers are characterized as a spooky and twisted family.
             The poem "The Haunted Palace" made a connection between the house and the members of the Usher family. The house started out as royalty and was a beautiful, normal, neatly-composed home . That was how the Usher family once was. In the first three stanzas of the poem, it showed how the family used to be happy. As time went by, the house deteriorated along with the emotions of the people living in the house. The incest of the Usher's had caught up with them and had made them mentally distraught. The quote "But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate, described what was happening to the house at the moment. It is saying that the house, along with the Ushers, was full of sorrow. The imagery of the poem brings forth the image of a happy family that had no problems, and were peaceful; However, are now disgusting, living, twins that are physically and metally distorted.
             The narrator got a glimpse of the abstract painting that hung in the Usher hallway. It correlates with the place where Madeline Usher had been buried alive. It was like the entryway into Madeline's dungeon. "The immensely long and rectangular vault, along with the low, plain, white wal
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