The Fall of the House of Usher

what are the vast forms that move fantastically?

can you list them and explain them

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Poe relies heavily on personification to set mood and tone. There isn't a particular list of forms that move rather Poe leaves this up to our imaginations. Poe describes the eye-like red-litten windows "seeing vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody". These "forms" personify the discord of both the house and the Usher family. They are forms of the tormented Usher family, the house becoming a manifestation of the slow insanity that has taken over.