Comparing Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher and Gardner’s The Ravages of

Edgar Allan Poes The Fall of the House of Usher and John Gardners The Ravages of Spring Edgar Allan Poes The Fall of the House of Usher and John Gardners The Ravages of Spring atomic number 18 two literary works which are unique however, at the same time indistinguishably similar. Poes short story is a piece, which characterizes eighteenth century philosophy whereas Gardners tale is more modern. In fact, The Ravages of Spring is a story based on Poes The Fall of the House of Usher, which contemporizes its horror (Fenlon 481). Both stories are inexplicably gruesome and leave a reader overwhelmed by the outlandishness of the tales. Nevertheless it is the strangeness of the two stories that distinguishes them within the literary world and makes Poe and Gardner authors of gothic literature. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Ravages of Spring parallel within their eerie tones towards the blustery environments and the otherworldly houses which set the basis for b oth(prenominal) of the stories. However, by the conclusion of both tales Gardners remake of The Fall of the House of Usher is still a considerably lighter version of Poes gothic story. Both stories correlate within their morbid tones as the narrators of the two tales discuss the stormy environment, which plagues the beginning of the stories. Poe characterizes the storm as abroad in all its wrathwith huge masses of agitated vapour (Poe 412). Then he goes onto describe an unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hugh about and enshrouded the mansion (Poe 412). Thus, it is evident through Poes language that he is exerting a frightening and supernatural tone to describe this malevolent storm. ... ...oes tale and successfully does so when analyzing the paralleled tones towards the atmospheres and the houses which plague the two stories. However, when concentrating on the end result of both pieces the works are easily distinguishable from one another. One must still note that The Ravages of Spring is a brilliant reverence to The Fall of the House of Usher and both works are truly thought provoking and ingenious. Works CitedFenlon, Katherine Feeney. John Gardners The Ravages of Spring as re-creation of TheFall of the House of Usher. Studies in fiddling Fiction. 31.3 (1994) 481-488.Gardner, John. The Ravages of Spring. The Kings Indian Stories and Tales. New York Ballantine, 1974 39-71.Poe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of the House of Usher. Tales and Sketches. CambridgeBelknap, 1978 397-417.4452- 1 Marlow Engl. 12.37