The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
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The Fall of the House of Usher is acclaimed as one of Edgar Allan
Poe's greatest works. Poe uses Symbolism and analogies in both characters
and setting to tell this gothic tale of death and downfall. He often drew
upon memory for the setting of his stories. He combines atmosphere and
analogy to ....
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.... The entire opening
scene is steeped in blackness and melancholy.(Neilson, 197, Buranelli, 62)
Another of Poe's writing techniques is anima. Anima is giving a
character qualities of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the
anima figure in the story Poe's use of symbolism in his gothic stories is
a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a
symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to
symbolism when it has a distinct role to play. ....
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