"The Fall of the House of Usher" for our in-class exercises."

       1.       
      (I) “There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.”

     (II)  “It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.”

      2.     At the end of Edgar Allan Poe's tale “The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator tells us that he feels the reality that what is happening to him “It was not a mystery all-insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.”

      3.    “It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.”

   It means that narrator feels imagination and confuses what’s going on to him.