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Edgar Allen Poe Literature has become a way to express your thoughts and emotions. During the 1800’s, literature became a way of making currency, and enhancing your character. However many poets rather write for their hobby, little did they know they would make an impact in today’s writings. Both Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall Of The House Of Usher”, and “The Raven” portray characters that hallucinate, however, they differ in theme, and setting. In Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” both themes portray madness, “The Raven” shows loneliness, and “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” shows madness by being fed up with. In “The Raven”, the poems madness is expressed “Vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow for the lost Lenore…” The speaker loved his lost love Lenore very much, but she died leaving him companionless. The themes main point is to show an impact of how tragic it is to be forsaken. In contrast, Poe’s “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, Roderick Usher burry’s his unconscious sister alive, and finally confesses to his sin “ I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin….
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