Analysis of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

The Fall of the House of Usher is definitely a piece written in Poe's usual style; a dark foreboding tale of death and insanity filled with imagery, allusion, and hidden meaning. It uses secondary meanings and underlying themes to show his beliefs and theories without actually addressing them. It convinces us without letting us know we're being convinced, and at the same time makes his complex thoughts relatively clear.         On the literal level the story …

…of us).         This story gives us a way to understand Poe's complicated view of the universe without us even being aware he's doing it. It explains ungraspable concepts and ideas, and gives them physical forms. This way we can better understand how the different parts of his belief interact with each other. And looking at the parts as a whole, with the help of Poe's many analogies, his beliefs are very clear and very convincing.