What is the primary impact of the excerpt? it creates an anxious feeling. it dramatizes an exhausted feeling. it establishes a neutral feeling. it conveys a content feeling. i looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul, which i can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. 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. what was it-i paused to think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the house of usher?