...catch your breath in Poe's Gothic tales, for the sense of doom is as unrelenting as his alliteration. "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year . . ." — these sonorous, mesmerizing words in "The Fall of the House of Usher" are a literary narcotic....

..."telegraph," conveying radically condensed messages about the effects to be unfolded in the story. "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year": even these initial phrases in "Fall of the House of Usher," with their alliterated plosives, telegraph...

...effective use of phonetic symbolism in the first and third sentences 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. . . I looked upon the scene before me...

...sabemos também do terror provocado nos dois amigos pela figura de Madeline: morta por catalepsia, 23. "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year [...] l had been passingalone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length...

...verbal structures throughout "The Fall of the House of Usher," which begins with the following sentence: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. (P&T, 317) The motionlessness of this opening sentence, reflecting the morbid scene it describes, can...

...indistinguishable mass. "Fuligineux", que l'on retrouve encore au tout début de "The Fall of the HouseofUsher": During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year Pendant toute la journée d'automne, journée fuligineuse, sombre et muette Pour donner une idée de...

...the House of Usher Son cieur est un luth suspendu: Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. — De Beranger* DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. 1 know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom...

...the House of Usher Son cceur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le louche il resonne. — De Beranger[ DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, l had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length...

...details create the mood you identified. 1 . From "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew near, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. 2 . From "Occurrence at Owl Creek...

...said. At the fire, Timothy was reading to the women. In a voice deliberately hoarse, he whispered, " 'During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low . . .' " They left the river bottom on the morning of the nineteenth, following the trail to higher...