What Is The Moral Of The Tell Tale Heart By Emily Dickinson

When you think about insanity you might think about crazy people or creepy scenes that leave you saying what the heck. Well, in the poem The-Tell Heart by Edgar Allan Poe does just that even more than Emily Dickinson, who spent most of her life in her room writing poems with no contact with the outside world. While Edgar spent most of his life, showing these poems to the world and winning awards and leaving you saying did he really just write that? Well in his poem The Tell-Tale Heart he does just that. In his poem The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar writes about stalking an old man every day and watching him sleep while he goes into detail about what he is planning on doing to the old man with detail. He goes so much into detail that he makes you feel as if you were there in the moment and you were that old man being

In the poem The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar writes “Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly – very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him lay upon his bed.” Poe Pr.3 This piece of evidence relates to the thesis statement because Edgar repeats the word very twice and the way you would read it would make the reader feel as if something important or suspenseful is about to happen. Another piece of textual evidence in the poem The Tell-Tale Heart is “Would a madman have been so wise as this, and then when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously (for the hinges creaked).” Poe Pr.3 Edgar describes in detail of how the floor makes sounds by using repetition. Edgar’s poem has the most insanity because he uses a lot of repetition to make the reader feel as if something big or scary is about to