Rosie Charles
Edgar Allan Poe
The House of Usher
AP ENG II
The Fall of the House of Usher, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is one of the usual mysterious stories of this era. By usual I mean the writing style, which is Gothic. Edgar Allan Poe is infamous for he gory, scary, and evil filled stories. In this particular story, the theme definitely meets the status quote
As readers know very well, Poe is a very detailed writer. Not only detailed with diction, but detailed visually. In this short story, Poe uses the concept of imagery to demonstrate the environment of the story. For example: “the simple landscape features of the domain – upon the blank walls – upon the vacant eye-like windows – upon a few rank sedges – and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees”. In the preceding quote, the words reflect upon a deeper meaning of the place. I believe that it symbolizes the emptiness of the place, and how is it void.
Going along with being detailed, Poe’s diction plays a huge role in his writings. Poe is one of the many writers that use numerous amounts of adjectives to reel in readers. Besides adjectives and diction, pathos was used. This whole story consists of emotional. The emotions stream from worry to fear to confusion. The fear in this short story mainly takes place toward the end, where the sister was standing behind the door and ran in and killed her brother.
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer like no other. Even thought many people wrote “gothically” so to speak, Poe was different for many reasons. One, he was seemingly purely crazy. Everything, in almost all of his stories, end bad or with death. Another reason why Poe is like none other is because of his diction, not many author can pull of a page of adjectives and make it sound great.
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