The Tell Tale Heart Page 3

One significant aspect of Edgar Allan Poe’s style is his consistent use of detailed description. He uses this tendency to great effect in his short story “The Pit and the Pendulum. ” The plan for the story is very simply to create an obscure atmosphere of apprehension and anticipatory horror. Poe achieves this by minutely…

The history of American literature would not be complete without its prominent representative, the creator of visionary works, both poetic and prose, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s fevered imagination gave birth to literary works of high emotional power and the deep paranoiac despair. The writer’s literary heritage includes comparatively small number of work, but he, in…