Select the correct answer What word best describes the tone of this excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe!
looked upon the scene before me upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon
the vocant eye like windows upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees with an utter depression of soul
which can come to northy sensation more property than to the after dream of the reveller upon oplum the bitter lapse into
everyday life the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart an unredeemed dreariness of
thought which no gading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it-paused to think what was it that so
unnenved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher it was a mystery all insolublenor could grapple with the shadowy fancies that
crowded upon me as I pondered was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion that while beyond doubt, there are
combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us still the analysis of this power lies among
considerations beyond our depth. It was possible reflected that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene of the
details of the picture would be sufficient to modify or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impressions and acting upon this
de reined my house to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling and gured down--but
with a shudder even more thrilling than before upon the remodelled and invested images of the gray sedge and the ghastly tree stems
and the vant and eye like windows
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