Read this passage: my hand was already on the lock of the door before i recollected myself. i then paused; and a cold shivering came over me. i threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared. i stepped fearfully in; the apartment was empty. . (49). in this passage, how does shelley create gothic horror?

Read o captain! my captain! by walt whitman, 1819 - 1892 and tell me the theme

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning

Why isn’t the mood saddened by this tragic event