The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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. His symbolism generally takes the form of allowing some object to stand for an abstraction or personal attribute. Five persons f ....