Analysis Of Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

From The Fall of the House of Usher to Annabel Lee, from Tell-Tale Heart to The Raven, author Edgar Allan Poe has been thrilling readers with his gothic stories since 1824. Poe has an amazing, unique, appreciated ability to write poems and short stories that captivate readers with his gothic, murder works. When Poe first started to write in the 1820’s there were not many works of the gothic genre so his works were some of the first of the time. Poe’s time in the military at West Point may have contributed to the views he portrayed in his stories, but he was kicked out of the military shortly after because he was convicted of two charges of gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders. This is one of the reasons why Poe leaned toward writing

By utilizing these he changed and manipulated the reader’s view of the story and what goes on. In the short story Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator goes through his process of killing a man in his room. After he does it he starts to panic as officers come to his house. “ Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! No, No! They heard! -They suspected- They knew! They Were making a mockery of my horror”. In the beginning of the story, the narrator uses long high academic sentences to sound educated to the reader. Then he switches to short sentences to show his panic to the reader. As the reader encounters this part of the text they begin to read it at a quicker pace giving them a sense of the characters fear and rising panic. In the Poem The Raven the narrator uses repetition to affect how the reader sees the world of Poe. “ Then the bird said “Nevermore”... “Of Never-Nevermore”... Meant in the croaking Nevermore.” At the end of most stanzas in the text, he repeats the phrase nevermore. This relates to the theme of the text and the mood as it shows the darkness of the world in how he will never see his wife again. Repeating the phrase nevermore at most stanza in the middle of the poem leads to a somber mood. As it enlights what death and absence can to a person when something the love vanquishes from there life. When a readers read Poe’s work with syntax it leads

The house literal shows the house falling and how the house is no longer there. The figurative of the house falling is that the fall of the family name means that there are no more Ushers left to carry on the family name. This affects the reader as it shows a theme to the story of darkness and destruction as the actions of the Usher lead to the house falling unveiling a theme to the story. As revenge and greed led to the house falling it leads to the reader understanding what revenge can lead to. Also, it put a lasting mood on the reader as when the house falls it leaves a sense of darkness to the reader. By having a Poe also shows symbolism in his poetry as in his poem Annabel Lee he uses symbolism to affect the mood of the story.”In this kingdom by the sea, That the wind came out of the cloud by night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” The wind in this also shows something literal and figurative, as it is a wind from the Angels that killed her. But also the wind represents sickness and disease as the wind spread it to cause her to die. Because of this, it changes the mood of the story as it went from a story about love to her dying. It leads to revenge as the Angels were jealous of their love. The angles also symbolize people disapprove of love and jealousy as they don’t achieve their passion for love. Poe’s use of symbolism and imagery leads to a