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American Romanticism: House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe

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American romanticism: House of usher

In the story given in this essay is not just any ordinary story that you come along reading to. This story is called ¨ The fall of the house of usher¨ by an astonishing man named ¨ Edgar Allan Poe.¨
Edgar was not just a regular person because of the titles I his name. He was born on January 19th in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1809. He really didn't know who his parents were but was taken into a home by a Richmond merchant named john Allen and his wife. Edgar's middle name resembles johns which soon gave him the title of Edgar allan poe. As Edgar grew up he attended a university in Virginia but was soon expelled for not paying his gambling debts. This is where he started …show more content…

This is one of the stories that had a lot of meaning to it such as Artistic, literary, musical, etc. another way was an intellectual movement that changes the way People see or read a book in a big matter. Some ways that it was shown was written in the text, for example, ¨ Struggle in vain to reach the remoter of the chamber or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling / Allan Poe, Pg.9¨ This shown the reader deeper than what it really means in terms. Their many examples that shown in this story, sometimes the reader may get confused how I saw the story first. It takes a good amount of knowledge to understand some big words. The way how everything played out in this story was in a significant way that made others get attracted by the dark theme and meaning to it. Another quote that spoke out was ¨I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggle to overcome a habitual residency/Allan Poe,pg 12.¨ all of this dark and gothic style was a big impact to the people in Europe during the dark ages between 1800 to 1850. This type of theme and meaning back then was given the name ¨American Romanticism.¨ As other people say it it is called the romantic era. This explained the sequence to the story which readers didn't know, but are astonished by the outcome. This also affected the audience in critical movements which inspired them as a person. In the same way, it showed physical emotions being brought out to the table. ¨There are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of this affecting us, still, the analysis of this power lies among considerations/Allan Poe/pg. 16¨ these effects have given off many symbols that very few people know what they are. It shows mental physical and emotional motions be given

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