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.
It was first published in 1843 when Poe was thirty four years old. This thought provoking short story was first put into print in Boston, Massachusetts in a journal called The Pioneer. Tell Tale Heart was considered Gothic fiction during this Romantic Movement time period. A Tell Tale Heart is a story of a murder most heinous and a narrator who fights his insanity. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story about a narrator who can not stand the pale blue eye of the old man that lives with the narrator.