... interpreted that the house is actually symbolic to a mind as "through two luminous windows saw spirits moving musically to a lute's well-tuned law" the reader sees the internal aspect of the house, primarily as a soul, the key to the mind ( Poe 1,2,6). Through Poe's construction of this theme, the house being the foundation of the mind, other aspects can be incorporated such as the houses physical description, symbolically modeling a depressed and fragile state of mind. Poe uses the phrase "House of Usher ... " to relate both the decaying physicality and the last of the "all time-honored...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... fifteen months Clara and Robert relied on their unwavering love to keep them together because they had no way of contacting each other. During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair ... went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love ... to fall My music is silenced,"" and he would tell o...

• Word Count: 4114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... fifteen months Clara and Robert relied on their unwavering love to keep them together because they had no way of contacting each other. During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair ... went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love ... to fall My music is silenced,"" and he would tell o...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate