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Date:   Wed, 7 Nov 2001 2:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time

Dark Romantics was a term coined in reference to the writers whose literary

content emphasized in the ideas of sin, guilt, and predestination. Three

writers encompassed this category, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and

Herman Melville. Even though all three of these writers were considered Dark

Romantics, they all went about expressing themselves in different ways.

In Poes Fall of the House of Usher, Poe uses a multitude of adjectives,

adverbs, and sensory details to describe the characters and their

surroundings. In doing so, Poe creates an atmosphere for the reader and

transports then into the characters mind. For example when the narrator is

sitting in his room, he begins to describe his surroundings the bewildering

influence of the gloomy furniture of the room-of the dark and tattered

tapestries, which, tortured into motion by the rising breath of the tempest

The tempest that the narrator is referring to is the tor

and piety embodies the Puritans belief in the basic sinful nature of man.

is, in my opinion, the least accessible of the Dark Romantics. In contrast to

of the readers going deeper and deeper into the subconsciouses and minds of

was referring to. In one scene, all of the sailors assemble on the ships deck

they are; but in another light; how similar. They all wrote about the inner

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