During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heav
ens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Which best describes the mood created by the narration in this excerpt? angry and frustrated confused and disoriented gloomy and bleak chaotic and anxious
The narrative of Edgar Alan Poe could be said to have mastered, like no one else before or after, this tone filled with dread and darkness, a tone that is, precisely, gloomy and bleak. In these lines from “The house of Usher”, Poe makes the speaker describe his way to the House of Usher, and one can easily identify this gloomy tone by key words such as: dark, soundless, clouds that “hung oppressively low”, dreary, and melancholy.
