Edgar Allan Poe
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| − | This graph shows another interesting style trend, this time in his environmental descriptions. The first few stories, in particular Fall of the House of Usher, make strong use of dark imagery, such as ghastly, gloom, and, of course, dark (and their related derivates e.g. gloomy, darkness). | + | This graph shows another interesting style trend, this time in his environmental descriptions. The first few stories, in particular Fall of the House of Usher, make strong use of dark imagery, such as ghastly, gloom, and, of course, dark (and their related derivates e.g. gloomy, darkness). It's interesting to see that while later stories are not necessarily less dark, the wording used constantly changes. Throughout each story the words fluxuate in a similar fashion to each other. Each word is somewhat prominent in the beginning and slowly drops to zero by the end. This is very similar to the behavior of the graph of death. |
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