Fall Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe

In his poem, The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the drift from social norms and ideas and introduces a new literary genre during the Dark Romantic Era. Dark Romanticism was a new, dark, mysterious approach to literature that began to be used by 19th century writers. This movement, that began in America and eventually spread worldwide, was used by writers to expand their writing field of interest. Among these writers, one that Dark Romanticism influenced deeply was Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wrote many different poems that all basically circled around the dark movement, though one in particular, The Fall of the House of Usher, went far beyond limitations. This poem told the story of an isolated brother and sister who invited and old friend to come to their, said to be, haunted, mansion. Throughout this story there are many happenings going on not only in the house, but to the people within.
The Dark Romantic era was a period in which writing made a vast adjustment to the way literature during this time was displayed. Poe’s poem, The Fall of the House of Usher, deeply represents this change and states “...A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention…[they] had been twins…[they] entombed the lady...the mockery of the faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and the suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip…” (Poe 305). Due to the progression of literature during the Dark Romantic period, Poe took caliginous approaches in all of his writing. Without the Dark Romantic era most, or possibly all, of Poe’s writings wouldn’t be the same