Comparing The Amontillado, The Raven And The Tell-Tale Heart

The astounding author, Edgar Allen Poe, is a unique and very talented poet during the 1800s. Poe once wrote, “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night". As he aged, he faced a multitude of misery, grief, and sorrow, as Poe had lost his wife in the excerpt, “The Raven”. Poe wrote three poems, “The Amontillado”, “The Raven”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, which were all written to end with conflicts/struggles. The three important and most significant symbols in the texts that enhance the reader's understanding of character and conflict are the Amontillado, the raven, and the old man's eye; all of these symbols conflict with the narrator's misery. To begin with, the symbol in “The Amontillado”, the Amontillado, represents his jealousness and greed for it, as Montressour uses it as bait against him. As Montressour is mocking him, Fortunado

As the poem proceeds, the narrator yet realizes that the Raven may be a mythical being of some sort, or is an important being, and started to plead, ““Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”, Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore”” (Poe 83). This dialouge shows that the narrator is really feeling the grief and sorrowness when he wanted to forget his life long love Lenore, from his own head. This enhances the reader’s understanding of conflict by really personifying the amount of pain the narrator is in right now due to his deprivation. This text exemplifies the symbol of grief and loss due to the narrator begging the Raven do get rid of Lenore from his head, which connects to the common thread. The quarrel is continued on because the Raven is persistlently declining his requests that he has been showing with his true feelings. The symbol connects more to the common thread, because the narrator is feeling miserable; he is in a state of misery due to the Raven repuadiating his