On the Masque of the Red Death In The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe writes about how Prince Prospero keeps a mask in a sealed abbey to try to forget the Red Death . In the abbey there are seven rooms that have windows and matching decorations. In the center of the mask appears a figure dressed as a deceased; Prince Prospero chases him into the scarlet room where he dies followed by everyone else. Edgar Allan Poe once said, "It is my intention to make manifest that no point in its composition is referable either to chance or intuition..." Poe inserted imagery and symbolism into The Masque of the Red Death to give meaning to the story. This statement is true at least for The Masque of the Red Death. Poe chose to have the partygoers die in the black and scarlet room and to have the rooms go from east to west. It was his intention to use the language of dreams in describing the mask. Poe makes the stanzas go from east to west the same way the Black Death spread from east to west. The Red Death in this story is a reference to the Black Death which spread from Asia...