Prelude. Just before the battle, Grant had captured Jackson, Mississippi, and Pemberton retreated to the west. Attempts to stop the Union advance at Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge were unsuccessful.
The point of view is that of the first person. Poe decided to write 'The Tell-tale Heart' from the point of view of the young man that is living with the old man. Through this poem, the narrator tells us how he isn't mad or insane, but how it takes cunning to kill the old man he's living with.
One of the greatest short stories ever written is Edgar Allan Poeâs âThe Tell-Tale Heart.â In this 1843 classic, the murderer of an old man is tortured by the sound of his victim's heart continuing to beat, a sound which no one else seems to hear. The relentless beating eventually leads the murderer to confess.