The actual "House of Usher" is a symbol in itself. ... 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 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 p...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate