Period 6
Poe Analysis
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 the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher...I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling...(with) vacant and eye-like windows.
Imagery such as dark, low in the heavens, eye-like windows, and black and lutrid tarn help the reader get the "feeling" of the passage. These examples help reinforce the tone because they show how lonely and boring the scene is, and without them the passage would just show a situation, not a mood.