The house projects images on the walls to make things seem normal. The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big and small, servicing and attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly and uselessly. (religion metaphor). Later, the sound of the house clock is compared to. a giant oak tree falling in a forest, which is a simile show how eerie the surrounding are.
tick tocktick tock
The house begins to malfunction due to the deterioration of the machines, it causes a fire.The irony begins to show how, even without human life the house still functions. At ten o'clock the house began to die. The house tried to save itself. (personification)
(automated voice) Must save the houseMust save the house
Finally, a tree branch crashes through the window, destroying the house, but the automated system still works and says a poem about nature's cycle. The poem has metaphors that show how indifferent nature is to humans.