The Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the father of the short story by many. Over the course of his life, he wrote hundreds of short stories and poems. His writing style is unique and influenced by the tragedies that occurred over the course of his life. In fact, he is most well known for writing morbid stories and gruesome, dismal poems. Indeed his writing habits were heavily influenced by his life. His life was full of depression, angst, and woe. Many of the people he cared for fell victim to deadly plagues and diseases. To cope with this pain, Edgar Allan Poe sought comfort in the bottom of a bottle. In his times of depression he would drink heavily and become sick for days at a time.

With intricate details woven into the stitching of each piece of writing Edgar Allan Poe captures the reader and runs them through excitement, fear, suspicion and sadness. He leaves no stone unturned and no symbolism left out. His superb grasp on literary devices allows

This essay will discuss the themes in Poe’s writing that mirror his personal life and, in addition, the fear and supernatural motivators for his characters. First, I will discuss Poe’s background and explore how he became best known as a poet for his tales of mystery and macabre.

Edgar Allan Poe created a new perspective in literature that influenced future authors. He was fascinated by the world of madness, trances and horror, which influenced his literature. Moreover, Poe’s work produced a realistic image of mental states that appealed to many different audiences. His distinctive perspective lured horror fans to read more. Instead of focusing on the gloomy setting and eerie mood, Poe focused on the psychology of terror. Consequently, this made him stand out from most authors in the 18th century.

Edgar Allan Poe is a well known profound writer because of his great works of fiction through short stories and poetry. Often times inciting fear and suspense into readers by the use of tone and subject in a various literature ways. Evidently in stories such as The Masque of the Red Death, The Tale-Tell Heart, and The Raven being that they are all well known. Poe an unforgettable writer, because of his horror stories and writing style has created stories and poems that are classical and often spoken about. As well as inducing a sense of suspense to his own readers, he has become an inspiriting to a handful of writers to implement techniques similar to those of Poe and inspire certain character characteristics. Using different methods of writing and presenting stories Edgar Allen Poe has become and will forever be a key influencer in horror themed stories and poems.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, “Words-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” Edgar Allan Poe is one of the many few that has a very effective style of writing. By using various effects in his short stories, he draws his audience in and grabs their attention from the very beginning. Due to his unique system of writing, Poe has a way of controlling the majority of his readers’ feelings, or emotions. He has mastered the art of writing by disciplining himself to use specific words and styles in which he can affect his readers in any way he chooses to make them think or feel. Poe uses suspense, irony, and

Among the many strange and complex short stories of Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" has come to be known as one of the most mysterious and psychologically intriguing. Poe's preoccupations with death, with madness, and with troubled human relationships all find their culmination in this brief narrative. The murder of the old man and its aftermath, which form the center of the story, are told with dazzling clarity, a clarity that itself obscures the meaning of the act and calls into question the emotional stability of the unnamed narrator. The subjectivism of this story, the confusion of the line between reader and character within the narrative, and the use of language support the claim that Poe prefigures and indeed develops many of the tropes

Writing is a mirror of one's personality. When we write, we reveal a part of ourselves. We reveal our mind. We reveal our thoughts. If it is possible to exist, then it is possible to write, because writing is thinking, and thoughts are existence. This especially holds true to the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who through writing time and time again about his love and loss through both poetry and general prose, generates the story of his life. In these pieces, not only does he create original plots, but deep within the fabric of these plots springs a background world of Poe's own life, deeper than any allegory he produces or any poem he completes. The dark corners of Poe's mind are distinctly represented in his entire work body. Experiences,

Poe traditionally stuck to short stories and poems, primarily fiction. He dabbled in a variety of genres such as dark romanticism, horror, pseudoscience, satire. However, one distinct aspect of his compositions and idealogy behind writing was that for art to be art, it must have a clear motif, but not as clear as public pool—rather a film of mystery or the unknown lying just above the meaning of a story. For with too clear a meaning, to him, that work ceases to be art, but, too muddied, and it is useless nonsense. He said, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” On another hand, his works were the work of either the most insane, tormented man of all time or an omniscient, intense man challenging the mantra of life, the unending enigma of earth. In a letter, he stated, “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” Edgar Allan Poe wrotes tales of simple topics, but entwined them in his words’ artistry and his mind’s complexities, yet leaving no room for empty thoughts or extra

Authors’ experiences can often influence their works of literature, especially harrowing, disturbing events. Life-changing events like the death of a family member, an illness, or severe depression shapes the way one views the world, and some authors express their feelings onto paper. Edgar Allan Poe, a skilled gothic fiction writer, experienced hardships and depression, which he conveys throughout his grim works. In his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a mentally-ill man successfully kills an old man because of his evil eye, but confesses to the crime, out of guilt. In one of Poe’s poems, “The Raven,” a mysterious raven visits the grieving speaker and reminds him that he will not escape the wrath of sorrow. Although Poe’s stories of misery and madness captivate many, his use of literary devices emphasize overarching themes and chilling moods, thus creating the powerful stories.

Edgar Allen Poe has written many short stories and poems, in which he displays skillful writing techniques. Something he excels at is the expression of the themes in his works. He has a unique writing style and often resorts to using symbols to develop deeper meanings. As a result, Poe best executes the conveyance of his subject matter through the usage of his style of writing and symbolism. Edgar Allen Poe's eerie writing style is a key factor in the way he conveys his themes.

Throughout Poe’s stories, he shows a development of characters through his development of imagery and syntax. As the antagonists’ characters develop, they become more malicious. This development advances the story and allows it to successfully showcase Poe’s idiosyncratic writing style, a suspenseful mood. Overall, his one-of-a-kind style has inspired many authors to write similar types of sober stories and poems. His influence has made a huge impact on schools around the country. Poe’s stories are taught to students to show off his specific type of style. Poe’s use of imagery and syntax influenced the massive industry of dramatic, thrilling, and suspenseful

Part One: Language Language is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, factor in the meaning of a literary work. Not only do the words that an author chooses to write matter, but the language and the literal meaning behind them matter as well. Language constantly shifts throughout a story and it must at first hook the reader as well as keep the reader until the end. The story is painted and created through the kind of language used and how that language is manipulated. Like all authors, Poe has mastered this technique and enlisted it in his Unity of Effect to create the strongest possible emotions felt at the end of his writings.

through mystery and horror. Poe elaborated his writing, to be able to tell stories, within

Poe’s works have also inspired diverse visual artists, from the nineteenth century to today. He has written not only about pure love, but also strongly focused the negativities of human life which are cannot be erased easily. Besides, having a tragic life of his own, Poe’s writings got the vive of escapism, loss of love and horror and death. He has established scary feelings in readers‟ mind and also has made himself as a prominent gothic writer in the American literature. His main tool in creating such intense is the vast use of symbolism in his works.