...melancholy things. This quotation shows his mood: "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively...singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found himself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of Usher." The quotation...

...o'er me from above; if The calm, majestic presence of the light, As of the one I love. LONGFELLOW. (b) During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. POE. (c) And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas...

...Poe has chosen an unusual setting to portray mood in the opening of The Fall of the House of Usher: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. It is a fit setting for the tale that...

...used when there is a known objective, a centre of interest, to which everything else is subordinated. had been passing alone on horseback, through a singularly...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening grew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." — Poe. "On the coast of Maine, where...

...this exercise is to eliminate the mood as much as possible. Compare your version with the original. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with...

...POE (1809-1849) Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le louche il resonne. DE BERANGER. ilNG the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn F the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, >een passing alone, on horseback,...

...converging to one psychological effect is overwhelming. So with The House of Usher, from the phrase, "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day...the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens," the tense atmosphere of dread, of fear through a feeling of desolation, gathers its weight of gloom...

...inclination toward the "dot and dash" method, and without any straining to be simple, direct or natural: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was; but, with the...

...THE HOUSE OF USHER Son coeur est un luth suspendu; I Sitdt qu'on le louche il rfisonne.) De Stranger. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with...

...suspendu; Sitot qu'on le louche il resonne. De Beranger. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and resoundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with...