...USHER BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Son cccur est un luth suspendu; Shot qu'on le touche il resonne. BERANGER. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was, but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable...

...scene of the story has indeed the more careful and the steadier movement of an Irving or a Poe : ' ' 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 because intense and persistent...

...along somber roads toward the end of a remote year, in a region long since brushed into oblivion: 6i During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Notice how the castle waits to appear within view until we have labored our way through the...

...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...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable...

...HOUSE OF USHER. [D] 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...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable...

...exploitation of literary (poetic) devices and in his exploration of the 'distempered imagination'. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable...

..."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...

...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....

...the House of Usher Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. DE BÉRANGER During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable...

...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...