Dark Poe
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
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Approximate Word count = 888
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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