Answer:
about 4.5 billions years ago
The metaphor portion is “Give me death” which basically means that without liberty there’s no point in living, because if you are not free and you’re constantly being controlled then what’s the point of living
This excerpt follows a grave, slow tone. After Madeleine Usher's return from the grave, the narrator flees in full speed, and all the pasage becomes enraged with fierce, quick action, first represented in the storn, and then with the "wild light" that is "shot along the path", which may be taken for lightning, but an unnatural source of this light is suggested as the narrator wonders what might be the origin of this "gleam so unusual". The reader is thus taken from the realm of nature into the realm of the unnatural or supernatural.
