I Felt Madness, In My Brain… “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about the narrator who killed the old man because of the obsession over the old man’s vulture eye. He foresighted the plan very efficiently on how he killed the old man but ended up showing the old man’s remains to the officers. He mainly did this to stop hearing the old man’s heart. “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” by Emily Dickinson is about a narrator hearing sounds in the funeral. She was hearing footsteps, people lift a box, and bells which all triggered her insanity. At the denouement, her plank of reasons broke and she fell until her rationales vanish. Both of the stories shows that both of the authors develop the central ideas of madness by using punctuations and
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His madness started off when he saw the old man’s eye. He saw the old man’s eye as a vulture like eye. He said, “ It haunted me day and night.” ( Paragraph 2, Poe). This shows he was being haunted for days and nights from the old man’s eye. His obsession made him go to the old man’s house and stare at the old man’s unopened eyes since he can’t kill him while the old man’s vulture eye is close. He did this for seven day straight, “And this I did for seven long nights.( Paragraph 3, Poe). The night when he first saw the old man’s eye, he started hearing the old man’s heart which caused him to think that the neighbor could hear it. It made him get a new obsession throughly from the heartbeat of the old man’s heart. “It grew louder, I say, louder every moment” ( Paragraph 11, Poe). This shows his madness increasing as he hear the old man’s heart louder every second. Near the conclusion of the short story, he started to hear it again even after he killed the old man. “It grew louder-louder-louder!” (Paragraph 17, Poe). The pace of the story became faster as the narrator saw the eye. From all the example, Poe showed that the central idea of madness was developed by obsession and the narrator’s …show more content…
The central idea of madness increases on each stanza. In the first two stanza, she explained what the people was doing in the Funeral which shows her madness was slowing increasing. She said, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” (Dickinson, 1.1) and “My mind was going numb-” (Dickinson, 2.4). As she in coffin was being lifted, she could hear creaking including people’s steps. She said, “And creak across my Soul” (Dickinson, 3.2). This shows that she is getting overwhelmed by madness. “Then Space-began to toll” (Dickinson, 3.4). This shows her desolation is getting to her as she is about to get buried. She uses figurative language which compares space and heaven to a bell. After she hear the bell, she said she is a ear and could only hear. “And Being, but an Ear,” (Dickinson, 4.2). She also uses dashes to slow down the pacing and a dramatic tone.Here is some examples, “Kept treading-treading- till it seemed” (Dickinson, 1.3) and “Kept beating-beating-till I thought”(Dickinson, 2.3).At the end she lost everything and her madness overtaken her. She also showed a figurative language at the end which she compares her reasons to her plank in reasons but it broke which she losing her reasons until it’s gone.She said, “And then a Plank in Reason,broke,”(Dickinson, 5.1). From these examples it all shows that she uses mostly figurative language and punctuation
His madness started off when he saw the old man’s eye. He saw the old man’s eye as a vulture like eye. He said, “ It haunted me day and night.” ( Paragraph 2, Poe). This shows he was being haunted for days and nights from the old man’s eye. His obsession made him go to the old man’s house and stare at the old man’s unopened eyes since he can’t kill him while the old man’s vulture eye is close. He did this for seven day straight, “And this I did for seven long nights.( Paragraph 3, Poe). The night when he first saw the old man’s eye, he started hearing the old man’s heart which caused him to think that the neighbor could hear it. It made him get a new obsession throughly from the heartbeat of the old man’s heart. “It grew louder, I say, louder every moment” ( Paragraph 11, Poe). This shows his madness increasing as he hear the old man’s heart louder every second. Near the conclusion of the short story, he started to hear it again even after he killed the old man. “It grew louder-louder-louder!” (Paragraph 17, Poe). The pace of the story became faster as the narrator saw the eye. From all the example, Poe showed that the central idea of madness was developed by obsession and the narrator’s …show more content…
The central idea of madness increases on each stanza. In the first two stanza, she explained what the people was doing in the Funeral which shows her madness was slowing increasing. She said, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” (Dickinson, 1.1) and “My mind was going numb-” (Dickinson, 2.4). As she in coffin was being lifted, she could hear creaking including people’s steps. She said, “And creak across my Soul” (Dickinson, 3.2). This shows that she is getting overwhelmed by madness. “Then Space-began to toll” (Dickinson, 3.4). This shows her desolation is getting to her as she is about to get buried. She uses figurative language which compares space and heaven to a bell. After she hear the bell, she said she is a ear and could only hear. “And Being, but an Ear,” (Dickinson, 4.2). She also uses dashes to slow down the pacing and a dramatic tone.Here is some examples, “Kept treading-treading- till it seemed” (Dickinson, 1.3) and “Kept beating-beating-till I thought”(Dickinson, 2.3).At the end she lost everything and her madness overtaken her. She also showed a figurative language at the end which she compares her reasons to her plank in reasons but it broke which she losing her reasons until it’s gone.She said, “And then a Plank in Reason,broke,”(Dickinson, 5.1). From these examples it all shows that she uses mostly figurative language and punctuation