"The Fall of the House of Usher"

                                                            Paraphrase

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was; but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life—the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.

1)  “DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,”

  

2)  At the beginning of the Edgar Allan Poe gloomy tale” The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator describes autumn as the “ dark and soundless” in which clouds “ oppressively hung” that makes him feel depressed. 

 

3) In the “ The Fall of the House of Usher” of Edgar Allan narrator says that “clouds hung oppressively low in the heaven.”This line refers that sky are dark and it looks heavy that they are about to fall.

 

4) The author of “ The Fall of the House of Usher” tells us that this sense happens at the night in the autumn season when clouds are dark and they look heavy.

 

5) It was dark autumn day and the guy is riding horse, he rides it throughout the  scary looking landscape in the countryside. He passed by the house of Usher, the house was surrounded by the trees. When he looks at the house his heart is sinking deep because the dark day makes it look creepy. The shadows of trees and mysteries things was falling and him as he goes by the house.

 

6) On the autumn  cloudy day they guy was riding horse throughout the spooky  landscape on the countryside along the house of Usher. That house made him feel  scared.