Heart's and Eyes

Most critics know Edgar Allen Poe as a mysterious man, with many thoughts and feelings of symbolism. He has put in his books so much psychological themes and has really, got hold of the human psyche. According to www.onlineliature.com, “Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page. … There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems.” Much of his works have so much to hide and so much to gain from. He was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1809 and had parents as actors. He first inspiration on writing came to him around the time when his family was breaking apart “In 1826 Poe became engaged to Elmira Royster, but her parents broke off the engagement. During his stay at the university, Poe composed some tales, but little is known of his apprentice works.” (www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eapoe.htm). He will forever be known as a master writer, with so much detail and unhappiness in his work that later on, even after his death, his works will continue to indulged readers from time to time.

The Tall Tale Heart, a story of a man scheming to get rid on an eye that his master has bestowed on him. The eye is clearly physical and the heart is also. According to www.Helium.com, “Cleary written as if by the protagonist himself, the tell tale heart's effectiveness as a short story is strengthened through the first person narrative. Furthermore, this also enables a more clear representation of the underlying plot” We see the care taker as a psychopathic person not knowing of what the eye does to him. According to critics, “TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?” (Litature.org). The man is clearly insane and has the thought of killing his master in order to get rid of the eye. Once the man does get rid of the eye, it is now the heart that haunts him.