Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe’s Setting the Mood Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories are usually dark and mysterious like his poems. He uses a lot of imagery and symbolism to fulfill his dark settings. Some of Poe’s words are so dark and mysterious it makes the hair rise on the lack of someone’s neck. The dark, hair raising words are found in one of his short stories “The Fall of the House of …

…gives deep description of the house and all of its features. Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery and figurative language to haunt his readers with his dark evil setting. He makes his words come alive through auditory images. It becomes so real that it is hair rising. Poe goes through real deep description of just about everything in this story. It makes the readers real freaked out through the deep imaginative use of sense stimulating words.