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A 5 page essay that examines Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher as an example of Poe as a romantic author. The writer defines "romantic" in this context and then goes on to profile the romantic qualities of the narrative. No additional sources cited.
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and eventually find happiness together, i.e. a "romance." However, in previous eras, the word "romantic" had a much wider scope and pertained to anything, from art to music, in which
the emotional quality of the work is predominant, rather then say a rational approach, which emphasizes the intellect. From this perspective, the work of Edgar Allan Poe, as exemplified
in his short story The Fall of the House of Usher, is quite romantic in nature because it appeals to the senses, rather than the intellect. The romantic tone
of the story is evident from the first paragraph in which Poes narrator, who remains nameless throughout the story, is riding through a bleak countryside on his way to
answer a plea from a childhood friend, Roderick Usher. Clouds hang oppressively low in the sky on a "dull, dark, and soundless" day (Fall of the House...Poe). As this
illustrates, Poes choice of words is poetic in their ability to conjure the "feeling" and ambiance of the scene, which is unrelentingly depressive. The word "surreal" was not in popular
usage at the time, but, if it had been, Poe would have surely used it since the scene he describes is, indeed, surreal. Poe implies this when he writes
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House...Poe). Sojourners in the nineteenth century did
not travel for a visit of days, and the narrator seems rightfully dubious of his original plan to stay several weeks with his friend, Roderick Usher, on seeing the Usher
mansion sitting in a grey bog, surrounded by "ghastly tree-stems" and "vacant and eye-like windows." Nevertheless, the narrator is a good man and felt compelled to come when he
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