"Historians note that Poe's writings emphasizing the dark side of humanity and nature challenged the optimistic and confident spirit of the American people during the nineteenth century" ("The Tell-Tale Heart" 349). ... The dark tone of the setting introduces the tone of the rest of the story. ... The dark atmosphere and symbolism of the raven illustrates the darkness in Poe's life. ... Guilt is a major theme in "The Tell-Tale Heart." ... "The Tell-Tale Heart", one of Poe's most famous stories, was written in his earlier years. ...

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" Then in 1843, he wrote, "The Tell-Tale Heart.... Poe's writing is notable due to his use of visual elements, darkness and light and horrific style. ... In addition to that, in "The Tell Tale Heart," his room was "as black as pitch" with the imagery of something being so dark that no one could see through. In addition to visual elements, Poe includes darkness and light in the stories he wrote. ... "The room was so dark" that there was no way the old man could see the door being opened. ...

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The Tell - Tale Heart The Tell - Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. ... The Tell Tale Heart is a typical Poe short story. ... In The Tell Tale Heart the main theme is death. ... Since Poe is going after his one goal of terrorizing the reader he sets his stories in dark, claustrophobic spaces or outside at midnight. In The Tell Tale Heart the story is set in a small dark room. ...

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The Tale Tell Heart, written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very dark, but magnificent piece of writing. ... The old man was very scared, and his heart was racing. The narrator could hear the heart beat of the old man. ... It is very dark, and has very good imagery, and description. ... I think that the heart beat at the end is actually the narrators guilt. ...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" are two examples of fiction that utilize symbolism effectively to examine latent ideas present in literature. ... Another piece of fiction that applies symbols to interconnect ideas is Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... According to Hollie Pritchard, Poe understands human nature to be "a delicate balance of light and dark, good and evil. Most of the time is precarious proportion is maintain; however, when there is a shift, for whatever reason, the dark or perverse side emerges" (144). ...

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A Light During Midnight Are you supposed to be fighting a heart - wrenching war with yourself? ... The second personality is the deep, dark, horror movie side which easily allows me to be swivet (being overly agitated) and depressed. ... Basic dark colors show my undertone (low emotions) personality. ... The pink hearts floating around the portrait symbolizing how warm hearted I am to others. ... On the left ear there is a silver heart earring and in that heart is a silver tree. ...

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Two of his literary works, "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", are perfectly evident of Poe's style. ... "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are two short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. ... For seven nights the protagonist stalks the old man in "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... The protagonist investigates the dark vault and discovers a circular, seemingly bottomless pit. ... The eighth night of stalking arrives and the protagonist kills the old man in "The Tell-Tale Heart". ...

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Demonstration of madness in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe is the great American writer of the short story. One of Poe's short stories was "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Story of a cruel murder. ... First of all "The Tell-Tale Heart" is told by the first-person narrator, it allows the reader to feel close to him." ... The main scene happens in the total darkness in the old man's room, "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness ." ... No interpretation can give the reader the idea of the real feelings that one has while reading Poe's sto...

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It can be an insight into the dark and somber world of Edgar Allen Poe. ... Perverseness, he believes, is "...one of the primitive impulses of the human heart." ... What makes this story different from "The Tell-Tale Heart" is that Poe has added a new element to aid in evoking the dark side of the narrator, and that is the supernatural. ... In "Heart", the narrator suffered from insanity and the obvious obsessive disorder. ... To the narrator in "Heart", that fear is represented by the old man's eye. ...

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The Perfect Story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe embodies every core aspect that is needed in order for writing on a paper to be called a perfect short story. ... The Tell Tale Heart contains four characters; the narrator, the old man, the police, and the neighbor that phoned that police. ... The overall tone of this story was grim and dark. ... How and why this "dark side" emerges differs from person to person. ... It is this irrational fear which evokes the dark side, and eventually leads to murder. ...

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His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. ... Then I opened the door wide, and there was only darkness and nothing else (23-24). ... The silence remained unremitting and the darkness gave no sign (27). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...

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A raven comes into his chamber in the middle of a dark stormy night and the speaker sees the creature as a prophet. ... " (5.29) "Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; - "Tis the wind and nothing more... There is uncertainty in the dark of night, anything can happen. ... Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" ... He feels as though the raven is eating away at his heart. ...

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The narrator and the old man live in an old, dark house: "for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers" (1472). ... However, there was no heart beating. ... When speaking of a lantern's state of darkness he says it was, "closed, closed, so that no light shone out-(1472). ... - it is the beating of his hideous heart!"... This is shown exquisitely in "The Tell Tale Heart". ...

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In the final stanza you really feel the pain of a broken hearted man, "and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-in her tomb by the sea". Edgar Allen Poe's feelings are made quite clear; he really poured his heart and soul into the final stanza and captivated the reader who viewed the tragedy of life and death through his eyes. The poem of "Annabel Lee" has a fairytale style, with images representing the dark side of Poe's imagination. ...

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Edgar Allen Poe, in particularly, was notorious for his dark writings and depressing storylines. ... This short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, has a very dark mood which will be exposed as the audience is gradually sucked into the plot. ... This could mean that the house is practically dead; there is no life to sustain it and it can be felt in the heart of any man, such as the narrator, who lay eyes upon it. ... Poe liked to add a dark, depressing mood so that readers may become more in depth with the storyline. ... Just his looks alone contributed to the darkness of the mood whic...

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The gothic genre focused on darkness, death, isolation and caution either in the behavior of one person toward another or within an individual's own selfhood (poemuseum.org). ... This being said, his depressing life helped with his inspirations for his dark stories. ... Another way that Edgar Allan Poe showed his qualities as a writer was by a popular short story called "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" was an attempt to create an extremely brief piece, also known as a short story. ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" is different and makes us want to cry...

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Two examples of such narrators are Raskolnikov and the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart. ... The narrator from "The Tell-Tale Heart" is obviously not of sound mind. ... Guilt is a main motif in many of Poe's stories, such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. ... Poe's stories are almost always dark, and it is difficult to trust the narrator's account of the situations that transpired. Crime and Punishment was dark at the beginning, and Raskolnikov was quite ill for the better part of the book. ...

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Although the most interesting part is that he was one of the first authors to ever deal with the darker side of life. ... The way that he depicts death and darkness are very strange, it appears that he gets much joy, or rather he is intrigued by it. ... I think this due simply to the fact that we all have a darker side within, whether we like to admit it or not. ... He became so well known for this very reason, his writings gave people an idea of the dark side. ... Again we come across the same sort of hatred in "The Tell Tale Heart." ...

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Even though Poe immerses both stories with dark romantic gloom through his graphic sensory images, the subject of each story contrasts in many ways. ... Edgar Allan Poe's tumultuous childhood can be seen as the source of his dark and devious writing. ... A despondent depressant Poe put his heart into every story he wrote, the result is the horrifying tales of murder, nightmares, and death that are read to this day (Wilson, James 2). ... The house and Roderick finally "fall" and crumble away into the darkness which reaffirms the correctness of the title, "The Fall of the House of Ushe...

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Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as, among many things, a master of dark fiction. ... Both his mother and his wife died young, leaving gaping wounds in Poe's heart. ... According to his own reasoning, the point of the poem is pleasure through beauty, even if that beauty is dark and tragic. ... For a person who invested so much ink exploring the common darkness and capacity for madness in everyone, this is an undeniably optimistic expression of positive equality. ...

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The Raven This is my favorite piece of work done by Poe. It's a great poem. The raven is a dark gloomy poem about how he misses his love Lenore. This poem is about Lenore, who is his wife, who died of a hopeless illness. This poem is built around the word nevermore. I think the meaning behi...

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He led Fortunato through the house into a dark and damp underground vault where the image of death becomes clearer and clearer as they walk. ... He is so intent on fulfilling his revenge he isn't even thinking about the consequences of Fortunato's death: "My heart grew sick - on account of the dampness of the catacombs." ...

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In this poem, Poe takes his readers through the heart of misery with an overcastting shadow of terror. ... Instead of bringing peace to his broken heart, it only seems to breed more anguish. ... However, as the poem continues, the reader sees the dark aspect that is attached to so much of Poe's work. The thoughts of the moon shining every night to remind him of that which he had lost, of the stars never rising without her memory, and of the way he spends his nights next to "her tomb by the sounding sea," show how Poe exemplifies darkness even through something so beautiful as love. ...

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The unfortunate events that happened throughout his life may have contributed to his dark, yet unique style of writing. ... Even in the peaceful setting of his own home, he created works that reveal the indescribable yearnings he had in his heart. ... In 1849, Poe attempted to win the heart of Sarah Helen Whitman, who is also a poet in the wealthy society of Rhode Island (Bio.com). ... He explored the darker side of humanity by presenting his concepts of fear, obsession, and suspense. ...

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When he opens the door, Poe states that "the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"" After seeing no one at the door and hearing the name of his lost love whispered, the emotions of his loss overwhelm him as Poe states, "Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-"Tis the wind and nothing more!" ... As the poem progresses, the man asks several questions as to the nature of the bird, and why he has visited the man in the dark of night. ...

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• Grade Level: High School