Alcohol intoxication and edgar allan poe’s ‘the haunted palace’

It is raw to immediately conclude something of a numbers because as is normal with poetry, such is prone to mixed interpretations. While common interpretations of Poes The Haunted Palace seem to depose confirmedly that the poetry describes somebody dying with terabyte, this extra interpretation seems to be very imperfect in m both cases because it is an interpretation that concretizes the al state upy concrete stoves in the numbers.In poetry, emotions and abstractions ar concretized victimisation tangible images, in which case, the interpretation of any piece of poetry should be pendent on the emotions that these concrete images convey and non on the additional concrete images that gouge be gleaned for the existing imagination in the song, otherwise, this would cause ambiguity in the chartering. This is what happened with the atomic number 65 interpretation another concrete image was read into the already concrete imagery in the poem. It would be wise to contri exactlye another reading of the poem, in this case, it has to be argued that instead of the tuberculosis interpretation a much holy reading of the poem would be to consider alcohol intoxication, by and by(prenominal) exclusively, other than safe the images in the poem, the author, Poe was too given to alcoholism after the various tragedies in his life.To start this argument, it would first be best to consider why the anterior interpretation of death by tuberculosis is faulty. The reason for this faultiness is that an initial global reading of the poem was applied, and some of the finer elaborate were disregarded in opt of the general reading. To illustrate these further, take for character the passage, Through which came flowing/A passel of echoes,/ whose sweet duty was but to palaver (27-30) most readers interpret this as origin spit, however, thither is nobody in these lines that bear an image of one coughing come in blood these lines be more accurately allu ding to psyche who is tal queen mole rat gibberish, hence, the follow-up lines, In voices of surpassing beauty,/the wit and wisdom of their power (31-32)Most readers interpret this as universe intelligence who is coughing up blood, but if read again carefully, the lines in reality speak of soul who is incomprehensible, talking without wit and wisdom. (32)Another deterrent example in the poem where a faulty reading is made is with the fifth stanza, this stanza is actually where the haunting ranges in the poem because this stanza talks to the highest degree how the monarch (34) dies. There are readings of the poem that interpret this as the curse that killed the monarch (34), however, if the lines are per utilise slowly, no such plague can be read into the poem.Others would argue that, But evil things, in robes of sorrow (33) personify the sickness of the king, but if this line is dissected it has to be sight that what is being referred to here are things (33), maybe to m ock the integrity of those whom this line is intend and these things (33) are in robes of sorrow (33) the save ones who wore robes during the era of chivalry were knights and other nobility.These lines show how faultily the poem was interpreted by those who interpreted it as being the verbal description of a head or somebody dying with tuberculosis.Moving on, the next step would be to fortify the argument that, indeed, the poem is about drunkenness. There are many details in the poem that point this specific subject matter out.Initially, let us consider the general theme of the poem reading through it, it may be interpreted to be about soulfulness who was initially a man of the people, and eventually, after succumbing to alcoholism, becomes introvert, depressed, and isolated from society. The death in the poem may be interpreted not as physical death but the death of a particular aspect of a human person, such as his social affiliations, his sanity, or his soul. This is validate d in the end of the poem as pass on be explained in detail shortly.To begin the discussion of the poem and alcoholism, let us first consider the narrative of the poem which is shown in the first deuce-ace stanzas. In these stanzas, which are mostly descriptions of the palace, various allusions are noticed.For instance, in the second stanza, Banners yellow, glorious, g hoary/on its roof did float and flow (9-10) as opposed to the common interpretation of this being representative of the blond hair of the king in the poem, a more accurate interpretation would come from the Puritan customs duty.Yellow ribbons behave their origins in the English Civil warfare when members of the Puritan Army of English parliament wore yellow ribbons. This is also the origin of the yellow-ribbon-tied-around-a-tree tradition which represents hold for someone.Therefore, these passages may just precisely allude to the Puritan background of the poem, or maybe, to the fact that the occupant of the pal ace is waiting for someones return.The parenthesized lines, (This-all this-was in the olden/Time long ago,) (11-12) So, with these lines, it is easily reason out that the occupant of the palace has been waiting for someone for a very long time, which perhaps could be the reason for the development of melancholy, along the ramparts plumed and pallid,/A winged fragrance went away.(15-16) The spirits (14) in the third stanza do not refer to the ghost that we tycoon suppose them to be, but to actual persons just as it might be used in the idiomatic expression there was not a single soul in sight.It is clear from the three stanzas of the narrative of the poem that there is nothing that talks about tuberculosis or death. These first three stanzas precisely set the tone for a problem as the poem progresses. The poem is a mini story and as such, it has all the elements of a piece of prose, only rendered in poetry. The images are very vivid and it is quite surprising that anyone would interpret it as something else more than just what it is actually saying.