Essay on Poes the Fall of the House of Usher
In the Edgar Allan Poe classic The Fall of the House of Usher, the house is symbolic of the diseased, dying Usher family that inhabit it. According the narrator, the outside of the decrepit house of Usher, along with its “black and lurid” tarn, held something of a morbid feel to it that apparently scared him a little, and in the basement of the house, there were the remains of a “dungeon-keep” from olden days. As the narrator approached the house of his friend Roderick Usher, he said “a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. ... ” The feeling he got as he rode up to the house of Usher is similar to that when he meets up with his childhood.