Poe’s Grim and Dreary Style
Many writers express how they feel by the way they write and how they see the world around them. Edgar Allan Poe is no exception to the rule. During the early years of Edgar Allan Poe, his father abandoned him, his mother, and two siblings (Marshall 42). At a young age, he witness his own mother cough up blood and die slowly due to tuberculosis (Marshall 42). He was later adopted in 1811 by a couple who did not even want him (Marshall 42). Some would say his talent was molded from the tragic events throughout his life, which lead him to write. Poe was an American poet and writer whose work still lingers in many individuals’ imaginations. He was very somber in many of his poems and when writing. Throughout his life, …show more content…
This short story has a well representation of his dark writing style. Within the story, misery, a sense of darkness, and a sense of pleasure from the relief of murder is shown in the beginning when Poe writes “The Tell-Tale Heart.” His work had been known for “nightmarish scenes, desolate wastes, and tragic passions” (Bloom 11).With this being said, Poe is representing those gothic qualities. In the statement, “it haunted me day and night” represents misery the man felt when he saw the old man’s eye (“The Tell-Tale Heart” 71). Another quality of his gothic style is distressed,“I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He has the eye of a vulture - pale blue eye, with a film over it” (“The Tell-Tale Heart” 71). Although the other eye of the old man was fine, he felt agony because of how one eye had “a film over it” (“The Tell-Tale Heart” 71). Another statement that is showing Poe’s sense of darkness in his work is, “When it fell upon me, my blood ran cold . . .” it represents the darkness the man felt when he came in contact with the eye in person and how he watched the old man in his sleep (“The Tell-Tale Heart” 71). He would see it everywhere he went and especially, when he would creep into the old man’s house. A sense of pleasure is what he felt when the thought of what a relief it would be when he murdered …show more content…
That many have also created the darkness inside of him to write gothic. They are very similar to how he uses his gothic qualities to tell the audience how the short stories have led up to the ending because of the misery Poe may have been feeling. Poe gets his main characters to murder cold heartedly and feel nothing but pleasure of doing such horrendous acts to their victims. In “Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe represents his betrayal by not letting the victims suspect what will happen to them until the very end, when it is too late. The narrator states,“He shrieked once - once only. . . I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done” (“The Tell-Tale Heart” 75). The old man must have seen who had betrayed him. Poe mentions in “The Cask of Amontillado,” “It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato” (“The Cask of Amontillado” 112). Poe states that so the audience can understand that Fortunato acknowledges on what is taking place for him. Poe makes sure Fortunato know that his own friend betrayed him by taking him to his doom. Edgar Allan Poe may have written the “The Tell-Tale Heart” because he must have known his own father betrayed him by never being in his life and his families. In “The