“Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the ax in her brain.” (Black cat 24) Madness is one of three main stylistic devices that analyze the writing style of Poe. The other two are point of view and dramatic irony. Poe always has this essence of madness in his writings. In “The Black Cat” the protagonist kills his wife (Poe 24) and deliberately cuts one of his first cat’s eyes from the socket. (Poe 7) In “The raven”, the protagonist is consumed with a longing for a Lenore and cannot find a way to take his mind off his longing. It is in the middle of the night when he finds a raven outside his window, and he talks to it. He tries to have a conversation with a bird (Poe 7-9)