The Tell Tale Heart Literary Analysis

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In the article, “The Question of Poe’s Narrators” James W. Gargano discusses the criticize in “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and tries to help the readers understand why Poe writes the way he does and identifies some of the quotes in his work. According, to Gargano, other authors view’s Poe’s work as “cheap or embarrassing Gothic Style” (177). The author is saying that Poe’s work makes the reader look at themselves not only the work. The author explores three main points. Some author thinks that Poe’s life is reflected in a lot of his work, uses dramatic language to show his style in work, and explains how Poe’s work manipulates his readers to understand. Gargano and other authors talks about how Poe’s life is reflected in some of works in a good or bad way. In the article the author states, “the intellect of a highly gifted young person before puberty” (177). This implies that T.S. Eliot one of the authors did not see Poe’s work for what is worth. Eliot was trying that purity took a horrible toll on Poe’s work in his later years. Huxley was another author that thought “Poe’s poetry suffers from “vulgarity” of spirit”’ (177). This states that his words a lack of …show more content…

In Poe has a lot of “psychological drama” in the work “The Tell-Tale Heart” (179). Poe’s work make the readers feel if the readers are there. He uses “irony” and “dramatic actions.” Poe intends to keep his readers one edge. Poe’s style has a genius about it. In Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” it states, “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” (qtd. Poe). In this work Poe is Dramatic in telling the readers that he is creeping into this old man’s room to kill him. Poe’s work make an impression on his reader especially in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In the entire short story Poe tries to under mind his

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