Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style

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of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconciousness, he is
still unable to disengage himself from the physical and temperal world. The
physical oppreses him in the shape of lurid graveyard visions; the temporal
oppreses him in the shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether
appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting and cruelly angular"
(63).

Setting is also an important characteristic is Poe's "The Fall of the
House of Usher". The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and
the Usher mansion are crumbling from inside waiting to collapse, help us to
connect the background with the story. Vincent Buranelli says that "Poe is
able to sysatin an atomosphere which is dark and dull. This is one of the
tricks which he laregely derived from the tradition of the Gothic tale" (79).
The whole setting in the story provides us with a feeling of melancholy. The
Usher mansion appears vacant and barren. The same is true for ...

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