Question

Read the excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. 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 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. What mood do these lines evoke in the reader?

Answer 1

The mood that these lines from Poe evoke in the reader is gloomy, obscure, as if a pending mishap or tragedy of a dark nature was about to take over the narration.

Throughout the passage Poe makes use of a darkened kind of description that combines the weather with a sense of dread and a subjective correlation of melancholy in the narrator.

Answer 2

Answer: oppressively

Explanation: in a cruel and unfair way that does not allow people the freedom they should have