![]() ![]() As long as they are closed, his victim is safe. The preparation occurs over seven days when he shines a light on his victim’s eyes at midnight. His obsession revolving about getting rid of the “Evil Eye,” not the old man. He admits to murdering the old man he lived with, making it about the old man’s one “pale blue eye,” which he refers to as the eye of a “vulture” due to its white coating over it.” (Paragraph 4). The narrator attempts to convince the reader of his sanity and does just the opposite. Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1838 poem, “A Psalm of Life,’ Subtitled “What the Heart of a Man Said to the Psalmist.” ![]() However, the quote was removed because Longfellow accused Poe of plagiarism. It is fascinating that the original copies of this tale contained a quote by Longfellow. It is written in the second-person point of view in style know as Gothic horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” which Edgar Allan Poe published in January 1843, is among one of the best-known short stories by Poe. ![]()
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