Point of View, Narrative, & Poe: Post one substantive paragraph Please answer at least two of the following questions.
1. What do you know about Edgar Allan Poe? Have you read any other stories by him? How would you categorize his writing? How does your knowledge of the author, whether his work or life, influence your reading expectations?
2. What heart does the narrator hear at the end of “The Tell-Tale Heart”? What do you think this reveals about the narrator’s mental state?
3. Review the stories & lecture from this week. What is Poe’s “sublime”? How & when might this experience appear or enter into the story?
4. Some critics have suggested that Poe’s unnamed narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is actually a woman. How might this identity alter our understanding of the story, particularly how we determine who is possibly the first victim of this story?