Quotation/Paraphrase with Help from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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“upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.”


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I am surprised how well Edgar Allan Poe is able to connect the feeling of sobering up/hangover to the feeling of sadness and dread he feels as he looks at the house in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “the after-dream of the reveler upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.”


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In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe uses elaborate language to describe for us the feeling of dread he experiences when he looks at the house. The feeling seems to be more than he can stand with the line “for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.” It makes me wonder what other images he has seen and why he can’t cope with this one.


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Edgar Allan Poe’s passage of “The Fall of the House of Usher” opens with him riding on a horse as he spots the house of Usher and night is beginning to fall.


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In the “The Fall of the House of Usher" the narrator tells us he is riding on a horse during an autumn afternoon. He is on his way to the house of Usher. When he finally sees it, a feeling of dread comes over him. The feeling is so strong he has trouble describing it. He also cannot understand why the feeling is there.


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The passage of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is about the narrator feeling a strange sensation when he arrives at his destination. He cannot understand why the feeling is present.