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The Fall Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allen Poe

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On a dull, dark and soundless day in autumn while upon horseback riding through a dreary track of countryside as the shade of the evening drew a melancholy house came slowly into view. It was the House of Usher. As I looked upon the scene before me a sense of insufferable gloom bestowed me. The house with its bleak walls and vacant eye-like windows surrounded by decayed trees. An utter sense of depression filled my soul. In this essay I will be telling you about the different ways Edgar Allen Poe used literary elements to show you how and why he wrote The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe uses certain settings to express the mood and feel of the story. The claustrophobic room, old paintings and books, a tomb in the basement and labyrinthine
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