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Landscape in masque of the Red Death, William Wilson, tosh of the dun Mountains, and House of Usher A measured reading of Poes tales will quickly give out the importance that beautify plays in the development of each literary work. harry Mountains has both a phantasmagoric and true(a)istic landscape allowing Poe to use both the affable and the physical environment to explain his tale. This technique is to a fault found in The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, and The Masque of the Red Death. In these tales too the reader whitethorn tend to focus on the action at hand, and the psychological details, because that is what we are prone to do with Poe stories. However, it is also important to understand that physical landscape as well. As Daniel Philippon states in his article Poe in the Ragged Mountains Any search for a whole public of suggestion must be held in rafter by the realities of the landscape in which it occurs. In A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, it is p retty obvious that the landscape is going to play an important part in the taradiddle - we are given the setting right in the title. However, a majority of the story truly takes place in an Orientalized locale that has been transposed into the Ragged Mountains. This alone is a great juxtaposition the title describes what seems to be a run-down, unappealing landscape, while the real action takes place in fantastical setting. barely why is the landscape so important if the psychological aspect is what Poe is trying to focus on? more than or less likely it is because the landscape gives us clues about what is truly happening in the minds of the characters, and hints at things that make the story clearer. For example, Bedloe starts his tale by describing the thic... ...dscape as well as a physical one, his pieces pack a more powerful punch, and always allow the reader to find hints about what is really going on at a deeper level. Since much of Poes action is psychological, the la ndscape is an element of the story that cant be ignored, and should not. Works CitedPoe, Edgar Allan. The Masque of the Red Death. The American Tradition in Literature. Ed. George Perkins and Barbara Perkins. 9th ed. vol. 1. New York McGraw, 1998.Poe, Edgar Allan. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 1843 in Poe, ed. Harold Beaver. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. Harmondsworth Penguin, 1976.Poe, Edgar Allan. William Wilson. Selected verse and Prose of Poe. Ed. T. O. Mabbott. New York Modern Library, 1951.Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher. R.V.Cassill, ed. The Norton Fiction. New York, London, 1995. The Masque (Mask) of the Red D, William Wilson, Tale of the Ragged MounLandscape in Masque of the Red Death, William Wilson, Tale of the Ragged Mountains, and House of Usher A careful reading of Poes tales will quickly reveal the importance that landscape plays in the development of each literary work. Ragged Mountains has both a surreal and realistic la ndscape allowing Poe to use both the mental and the physical environment to explain his tale. This technique is also found in The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, and The Masque of the Red Death. In these tales too the reader may tend to focus on the action at hand, and the psychological details, because that is what we are prone to do with Poe stories. However, it is also important to understand that physical landscape as well. As Daniel Philippon states in his article Poe in the Ragged Mountains Any search for a whole universe of suggestion must be held in check by the realities of the landscape in which it occurs. In A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, it is pretty obvious that the landscape is going to play an important part in the story - we are given the setting right in the title. However, a majority of the story actually takes place in an Orientalized locale that has been transposed into the Ragged Mountains. This alone is a great juxtaposition the title describes wh at seems to be a run-down, unappealing landscape, while the real action takes place in fantastical setting. But why is the landscape so important if the psychological aspect is what Poe is trying to focus on? Most likely it is because the landscape gives us clues about what is actually happening in the minds of the characters, and hints at things that make the story clearer. For example, Bedloe starts his tale by describing the thic... ...dscape as well as a physical one, his pieces pack a more powerful punch, and always allow the reader to find hints about what is really going on at a deeper level. Since much of Poes action is psychological, the landscape is an element of the story that cant be ignored, and should not. Works CitedPoe, Edgar Allan. The Masque of the Red Death. The American Tradition in Literature. Ed. George Perkins and Barbara Perkins. 9th ed. vol. 1. New York McGraw, 1998.Poe, Edgar Allan. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 1843 in Poe, ed. Harold Beaver. The Scienc e Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. Harmondsworth Penguin, 1976.Poe, Edgar Allan. William Wilson. Selected Poetry and Prose of Poe. Ed. T. O. Mabbott. New York Modern Library, 1951.Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher. R.V.Cassill, ed. The Norton Fiction. New York, London, 1995.