Romanticism is a period of writing that focuses on the lighter and darker sides of the soul within a narrator. Its focus is on extreme emotion and death and emphasizes the mystery of human mortality. Edgar Allan Poe expresses these things significantly in his work. He expresses in several pieces the fear of death. In The Tale-Tell Heart, Edgar Allan Poe(1843) expresses in the exposition through the narrartor that “The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed-- not dulled them.” This was his reasoning for why he was not mad. He also states that he had heard “all things in the heaven and in the earth” (pp. 702) and “many things in hell” (pp. 702). Which contradicts that he is not mad. He foreshadows in the exposition that he will commit a heinous crime by stating, “it is impossible to say how the idea entered my brain; but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night” (pp. 702). He expressed his obsession with the thought when he described how he entered the old man’s room at midnight for eight nights. In the event on the eighth night he expresses that “the hellish tattoo of the heart increased” (pp. 704), describing the old man’s fear, that he is familiar with. He decided in that moment “the old man’s hour had come,” (pp. 704). The narrator “threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once-- once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then sat upon the bed and smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But for many minutes, the heart beat on, with a muffled sound.” Almost as if he were representing the grim reaper. The narrator’s obsession with ending the mans life consumed his body to the point he enjoyed it and the thought excited him. Which is where the irony in this story is because he was so consumed with thought of the action the repercussions were not a bother until they were staring him in his face, so to speak. When the police showed to the home to inspect for welfare he thought his...