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The Haunted Palace (poem)
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"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 song written by Roderick Usher.
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1 Analysis
2 Publication history
3 Critical reception
4 Adaptations
5 References
6 External links
Analysis[edit]
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" [1] 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 representing a mouth. The exterior represents physical features while the interior represents the mind engaged in imaginative thought.[2]
Publication history[edit]
In 1845, Thomas Dunn English claimed Poe had tried to sell "The Haunted Palace" to John L. O'Sullivan of the Democratic Review but was rejected because he "found it impossible to comprehend it".[3] It is unclear if this is true. The poem was published in the April 1839 issue of the Baltimore Museum.[4]
Critical reception[edit]
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a known rival of Poe's, claimed that Poe had plagiarized the poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Beleaguered City." Poe denied that charge and suggested that Longfellow had, in fact, plagiarized from him.[5] Nevertheless, "The Haunted Palace" was one of the poems highlighted in Griswold's The Poets and Poetry of America, one of the first anthologies of American poetry in 1842.[4] When the poem was reprinted by the New World in 1845, Charles Eames introduced it as exquisite. "We can hardly call to mind in the whole compass of American Poetry, a picture of more intense and glowing Ideality."[6]
Adaptations[edit]
In 1904, French composer Florent Schmitt wrote an etude, Le palais hante, derived from "The Haunted Palace".[7]
In 1963, the poem provided the title for a Roger Corman film of the same name. The actual plot of Corman's film The Haunted Palace comes almost entirely from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novel by H. P. Lovecraft. By 1963, Corman had produced several highly lucrative films based on Poe's work, but Lovecraft was not at that time a well-known author; according to Corman on the DVD making-of featurette, the studio forced him to name this movie after one of Poe's poems (and included a Poe epigraph in the credits) so that audiences would believe it to be another film based on Poe's writings.
In 1987, Bulgarian rock band Shturcite released a song, "Omagiosaniyat zamuk". The song's lyrics are a translation of The Haunted Palace into Bulgarian but, in 1990, when the track was released on the compilation The Crickets, the track title was back-translated into English as "The Haunted Castle".
In 2009, Lithuanian contemporary classical music composer Giedrius Alkauskas wrote an Art song for a bass singer and a piano, based on the translation of "The Haunted Palace" into Lithuanian made by Aleksys Churginas.[8][9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. Cooper Square Press, 2001. p. 111.
Jump up ^ Wilbur, Richard. "The House of Poe," collected in Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967: 104–105.
Jump up ^ Thomas, Dwight & David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1987: 587. ISBN 0-7838-1401-1
^ Jump up to: a b Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001: 104. ISBN 0-8160-4161-X
Jump up ^ Moss, Sidney P. Poe's Literary Battles: The Critic in the Context of his Literary Milieu. Southern Illinois University Press, 1969: 126.
Jump up ^ Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987: 498. ISBN 0-8161-8734-7.
Jump up ^ AmericanSymphony.org
Jump up ^ http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/2011-04-26-giedrius-alkauskas-i-sapnu-ir-burtu-lauka/61863 (in Lithuanian, Bernardinai.lt).
Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GawyXCCIfm4.
External links[edit]
Works related to The Haunted Palace at Wikisource
Edgar Allan Poe Poems public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Poems
"Tamerlane" (1827)
"Al Aaraaf" (1829)
"Sonnet to Science" (1829)
"To Helen" (1831)
"The City in the Sea" (1831)
"The Haunted Palace" (1839)
"The Conqueror Worm" (1843)
"Lenore" (1843)
"Eulalie" (1843)
"The Raven" (1845)
"Ulalume" (1847)
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849)
"Eldorado" (1849)
"The Bells" (1849)
"Annabel Lee" (1849)"
Tales
"Metzengerstein" (1832)
"Bon-Bon" (1832)
"MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833)
"Berenice" (1835)
"Morella" (1835)
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835)
"Ligeia" (1838)
"A Predicament" (1838)
"The Devil in the Belfry" (1839)
"The Man That Was Used Up" (1839)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
"William Wilson" (1839)
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839)
"The Business Man" (1840)
"The Man of the Crowd" (1840)
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
"A Descent into the Maelström" (1841)
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841)
"Eleonora" (1841)
"The Oval Portrait" (1842)
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842)
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)
"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)
"The Gold-Bug" (1843)
"The Black Cat" (1843)
"The Spectacles" (1844)
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844)
"The Premature Burial" (1844)
"The Oblong Box" (1844)
"The Angel of the Odd" (1844)
"Thou Art the Man" (1844)
"The Purloined Letter" (1844)
"Some Words with a Mummy" (1845)
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)
"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845)
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)
"Hop-Frog" (1849)
Essays
"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836)
"The Philosophy of Furniture" (1840)
"Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844)
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846)
"The Poetic Principle" (1846)
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
Novels
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)
Collections
Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
Play
Politian (1835)
Other
The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)
The Light-House (1849)
Related
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