The topic sentence is usually always in the first sentence of a paragraph. If you are meaning the book or any representations of the novel
NO maturity does not depend on age people that are like 20 can act childish and 12-15 can act just like adults
Yes I think he actually sleeps there because throughout the whole poem he talks about how he loves this girl an how beautiful she is. Also by the other Edgar Allen Poe poems and stories I've read by him he seems to talk about death and is very literal about it.