Psychoanalytic Analysis: The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allen Poe, used a lot of symbolism and Motifs in this short story. Red was highly used to symbolized death. As we all know, every color has its purpose and meaning. Poe, used colors to symbolize the stages of life events that present in different rooms as their decorations colors. He tells about the sight of the rooms and how the first few rooms were decorated with bright colors symbolizes the early stage of life and the last one is decorated with black velvet color symbolizing the ageing and death. He describes a huge black clock in the last room that denotes every passing hour so noisily that the majority of the visitors at the gathering observe it, it appears to be genuinely clear