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.
The main idea of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe was about a murderer who is insistent that his is not insane for killing an old man who had a weird-looking eye. This â¦ indicates that the murderer, the narrator of the story, is constantly paranoid about the old man, and apparently murder solves his problem.he conflict in the short story The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe is the old man's evil eye. The killer (younger man) could not stand the eye.