The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe Essay -- Fall House

The yield of the home plate of Usher by Edgar Allen PoeSymbols and imagery of hatred and death in a story touch the reader equivalent a fingertip against a chord and can make the heart meet with fear and woe as the suspended lute with t unrivalled. The verbal parable that is used in the opening phrase in Edgar Allen Poes The Fall of the House of Usher is as strong as the imagery of dismay apply throughout the rest of the story, like the dark and gloomy house. The vivid colours and visuals in the story not only force the reader to icon the surroundings in his or her mind, but also contain the mystical connotations of gravity and despair. The inclusion of sounds, like the distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation, (Poe 27) and aural references to musical instruments, such as the lute quote by De Bringer suggests that the reader experience the sense of humor of the tale in a more auditory and sensory appealing fashion. The mood of the st ory is one of horror that is set up by visual and aural arousal and is well used in the tale of Roderick Usher.As in umpteen of Poes stories, the colors and images that describe the setting and characters are not only visually stimulating but carry dark connotations that give the storys horror more depth and feeling. The tale of the narrators solecism to the House of Usher begins with an eerie depiction of the building and its surroundings, the overview of the setting, a painting in which decay and death are the presiding elements (P.Quinn 85). In A identify to the House of Usher, Darrel Abel notes that the description of the setting serves two purposes...to suggest a mood to the observer which makes him properly receptive to the horrible ideas which grow in his... ...g of fear and shock. If ever a mortal painted an idea, that mortal was (21) Edgar Allen Poe.Works CitedAbel, Darrel. A Key to the House of Usher. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Fall of the House of Ushe r. Ed. doubting Thomas Woodson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice house, 1969. 43-55.Gordon, Caroline and Tate, Allen. View Points. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Fall of the House of Usher. Ed. Thomas Woodson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall, 1969. 27-30.Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher. The Prentince Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary G. Roberts. Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall, 2001. 16-28.Quinn, Patrick F. That ghost in My Path. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Fall of the House of Usher. Ed. Thomas Woodson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall, 1969. 82-90.