... description on the house as well declares the dismal tone. The house, surrounded only by "a few white trunks of decayed trees " and "a black and lurid tarn, " with "bleak walls...vacant eye-like windows...a few rank sedges, was mere and isolated. Upon seeing these "sternest natural images of the desolate and the terrible," what was aroused to the narrator "as he ... of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face... " referring to the general appearance of a vampire. Another but not the least one is the human-like mansion with its "eye-like window" red-litten:" as mentioned in Roderick Ush...

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... . These hints are brought out through redundant repetition of obvious connections that can be made to elicit the house as a human mind. Repeating descriptions referring to the windows as "vacant eye-like windows" portraying the house as an actual face, but looking deeper it is interpreted that the house is actually symbolic to a mind as "through two luminous windows saw spirits ... of a now deranged person crumbles into the depths, all as the narrator flees in terror for his own sanity. Throughout this occurrence Poe elicits terror through the addition of a blood red moon, and a tumultuo...

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