Poe, Edgar Allen - Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;

Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.

DE BERANGER.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the

autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the

heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a

singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,

as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the

melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the

first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom

pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was

unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic,

sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest

natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the

scene before me--upon the mere house, and the simple landscape

features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant

eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white

trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I

can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the

after-dream of the reveller upon opium--the bitter lapse into

everyday life--the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was

an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart--an unredeemed

dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could

torture into aught of the sublime. What was it--I paused to

think--what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of

the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I

grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I

pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory

conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations

of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus

affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among

considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected,

that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the

scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to

modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful

impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse

to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in

unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down--but with a

shudder even more thrilling than before--upon the remodelled and

inverted images of the grey sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems,

and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to

myself a sojourn of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher,

had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had

elapsed since our last meeting. A letter, however, had lately

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