in the first four paragraphs of "the fall of the house of usher" poe is striving to create a single effect for the reader. what do you think it is? Give at least two examples from this section to support your answer

In the first four paragraphs, Poe is creating a sense of foreboding.

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

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.