Ms. Hernandez
English 104 ME
9/20/2005
Melvin Evans

House by the Railroad Analysis

1. While looking at the painting most of my attention went towards looking at the massive house which was probably haunted.
I noticed it was a older house, no fence, and it was all white. And it looked like both the house and railroad track had been deserted for a long time.
When studying the picture closely my eyes wondered towards the front porch and how dark it was.
I think by having the house so big and so cold looking reinforced the tail of the house. What the house must have done in the first place for everything to become so deserted.

2. Edward talks about the fantastic mansard rooftop and pseudo-Gothic porch. Also, that the house must of done something to the sky because of it being vacant, and something to the earth because there is only a single track but no trains pass.
That the house must have done something to it's surroundings Hirsch kept bringing up. And the mood the poem and also picture represented was not very cozy or joyful feeling but, more cold.
My reaction to the painting pretty much was dead on with what Hirsch's poem. The painting pretty much tells the story. Because most of the point I mentioned were brought up during the poem.