Comparing The Raven And The Tell Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Tell Tale Heart” relates to some point in Poe’s life or it symbolizes guilt over something that he once did in his life and suddenly felt bad about it. I will argue this by using information from biographies about Poe’s life and things that happened before he wrote “Tell Tale Heart”. “Tell Tale Heart” was written and later published when Poe lived in Philadelphia with his 13 year old wife (cousin) Virginia. Although this poem is the most mysterious and physically intriguing poems that Poe had ever wrote, his life was also one big mystery. Different things that Poe states in his poem symbolizes many things in his life.
It is often stated that authors write about things that have happened in their life, such as their childhood, even the struggles they had to go through growing up, and this is the case for Edgar Allan Poe and his poem “The Tell Tale Heart”. Poe looked to put his own struggles in poems and short stories as a break from the conundrum that covers his ordinary of life. Being an observer to various passings, a typical subject of women constantly dying all through "The Raven,  Annabel Lee, and The Sleeper" to show how rapidly man can lose everything and can't recover his loses. In each one of Poe's poems it surrounds the deaths of others, although in The Tell-Tale Heart, the killer is really the narrator. …show more content…

Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates that he is to a greater degree a hyper depressive crazy person than an abstract virtuoso in light of how the vast majority of his stories include something startling, and how the hero winds up doing truly preposterous things. Additionally the way that he composes his stories and what he makes the hero do in his stories, and lyrics. Edgar Allan Poe joins the greater part of his experience, and what he experienced than the artistic components, and structure that he

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