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Descriptive Setting in Edgar Allan Poe's Works to Create a Gloomy…

- - - - “Once upon a midnight dreary.” (29)
      - “…distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December.” (29)
      - “the silken, sad… purple curtain,” (29)
      - “cushion’s velvet…/ violet lining.” (32)
      - [Dark shadows] “lie floating on the floor.” (33)
      - The month and time of day are gloomy. The colors are dark. The shadows are haunting. All of these lines give readers imagery of a setting that makes them feel as hopeless and melancholy as the speaker.
        
        Setting shows gloom just like the Crumbling "City in the Sea"
- - - - “a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,” describes the, ”view of the melancholy House of Usher.” (90)
      - “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.” (94)
      - “Dark draperies hung upon the walls.” (94)
      - “the under surfaces of the huge masses of agitated vapour…were glowing in the unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation… “hung about and enshrouded the mansion,” (104-105)
      - The setting (including the timing) and imagery of colors in this story immediately shows the reader the gloom and dreariness of the story. Poe even uses a storm and how the speaker feels to connect to the reader’s senses and emotions and give them that ever-dwelling sense of gloom.
        
        Similar to wha the imagery does in "The Raven"
- - - - “reared himself a throne,” (22)
      - “Time-eaten towers” and “melancholy waters…No rays from the holy heaven.” (22)
      - “sculptured ivy and stone flowers” (22)
      - The personification of death and the image of him sitting in a throne over the city creates a setting that gives the image of a dark figure ruling over an even darker place, which is a picture of gloom for readers. The imagery in the description of the city contributes to a ruined hopeless feeling.
        
        Overall dreadful feeling given by setting just like in "The Fall of the House of Usher