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.
Narrator and Point of View. Point of view refers to the way a story is told. The author selects a specific mode of presenting the characters, action, setting and events of his or her narrative. The choice of the point of view or perspective normally entails the setting-up of a narrator as mediator between story and readers, as someone who guides the readers and influences them in their reception of the text.