The short story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” both share a central idea of madness. Poe develops the narrator’s madness in the beginning of the story and explains it throughout the story. But, Dickinson develops the narrator’s madness very slowly. Both writers develop the idea of madness by the use of repetition. Poe develops the central idea of madness through his use of repetition. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is trying to convince the reader that he/she isn’t crazy or mad. The narrator is telling a story about how he killed an old man. It states, “I moved in very slowly – very, very slowly…” (paragraph 3). The narrator is trying to prove to the reader that he/she is
