Economy Of Gothic Romanticism?

Compare Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Fall Of The House Of Usher (pages 264-279) with the poem The Fall Of The House Of Usher (page 279) by Reed Whittemore. Does the comparison make you think? Gothic Romanticism? Economy? Value? Other? Please defend your argument with at least one quote from either text. Blog response due by Monday, November 30th.

Change?

What can we learn from the elements of satire and change exhibited in Rip Van Winkle? Can this old text exhort us to think?