The Madman Disguised as an Artist Edger Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts (Biography of Edger Allan Poe). A famous visionary writer and a phenomenal judicious literary critic who is the poet of "The Haunted Palace" (The Life of Poe). This poem was first published in April 1839 and was eventually integrated into "The Fall of the House of Usher" written by Roderick Usher (Gerald M. Garmon). As part of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe once said, “I intend to imply a haunted mind – a disordered brain” which Usher (Garmon) was remarking on. Poe uses the devices of personification, imagery, and symbolism to reveal characterizations of destruction and how evil can consume a human being. The personification in the poem is presented in line 29 where it states “A troop of Echoes whose sweet duty/ Was but to sing” (Poe). The echoes do not necessarily come in “troops,” like an army, but rather in ...