Edgar Allan Poe And Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson share a common central idea in both text which is madness. Both authors develop and refine this idea by showing their similar traits and characteristics such as: hearing, punctuation and pacing. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, is based on a man who murderers a old man because of a evil eye yet, the narrator countines to try and make the the audeince know that he is not insane nor mad however, through the story the reader learns hes a mad man. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson is based on a narrtor who slowly loses her mind and in the process discrteves her funeral for sanity leaving her. All in all, Poe and Dickinson display a central idea of madness in both texts to develop and refine

Poe used punctuation such to ephasize the narrator’s madness with the eye to express how insanity. The text stated, “He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell uopn me, my blood ran cold,” and, “It was open-wide,wide open- and I grew furios as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distincness- all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones,” (Poe 2-9). The evidence expresses, the narrators madness throught the punctuation; the narrator used repetition, dashes, and commas to epshaise and represent the element for madness. (This shows the narrotrs hared for the eye and that he has disliked it from the start) The narrator used repetition to help espasise what he was trying to say and used dashes and commas to create pauses and a pace to make the setting more intense. Dickinson used puncuataution to help crate a element of madness because he wanted the audience to understand that the narrator was losing her mind slowly however, she was also losing her sanity along with it. The text stated, “And then a Plnak in Reason, broke/And I dropped down, and down-/And I hit a World, at every plunge, (Dickinson Lines 17-19). The evidence indicates, a way the narrator expresses his madness is through his use pf puncutation with captialized letters, commas, and dashes. (This shows his reason was the only thing holding him form going mad but once it broke his sanity was completely gone) he narrator used capaitlized letters to create a strong point about his atement and emphasize what he is trying to say, the use of commas and dashes is to create a pace that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats and a sense of suspense. Poe and Dickinson use punctuation to help them succeed in creating a central idea of madness is with the use of punctuation such as: repetition, captialized letters, commas, and dashes. To