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The poet's word choice in these lines conveys a tone of </em><u><em>danger</em></u><u><em>.</em></u>
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Explanation:
The author makes an emphasis on the strength of the wind against the foundation (stiff fingers) describing a very dangerous situation. Even though with words like "melancholy" he also creates other feelings in the reader, the main focus of the text is on how dangerous the situation is.
Literature. /Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over reason and intellect./ Gothic short stories are a subgenre of American Romanticism/. Love is the primary theme in the literature of American Romanticism.
