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. ... Another but not the least one is the human-like mansion with its "eye-like window" red-litten:" as mentioned in Roderick Usher's verses, The Haunted House, also alluding to a characteristic of a vampire. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ... Throughout this occurrence Poe elicits terror through the addition of a blood red moon, and a tumultuous storm foreshadowing the fall of the mind, the climax of the story. ...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips'5. ... Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by nightmare life in death, 'her lips were red, her looks were free'8. ... Seen as an avenging serv...

• Word Count: 4055
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate