Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, to David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, both of whom died before the age of three years of Edgar. According to Fruzsina Iszaj, a Ph.D. student in the Personality and Health Psychology doctoral program and Zsolt Demetrovics, a clinical psychologist and cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. in health psychology, they both argue that opium use may have played a role in Poe's premature death (1617). One of Poe's most famous short stories and a classic of the Gothic fiction generation is "The Tell-Tale Heart" first published in 1843, in the Pioneer (Shmoop) magazine. Poe takes readers into a dark story about an unnamed narrator who tells a story that claims he is sane, but kills an old man because of his pale blue eye. Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes the feeling of guilt through his obsessive behavior, his point of view, his vivid visual images and his allegorical entities. Guilt is one of the most morally and logically powerful emotions that influence a person to choose right over wrong, good over evil. As Edgar Allan Poe wrote in his story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator begins to feel increasing unease and regret for having taken the life of an innocent man. Even though he is quite satisfied with his creation of a wanton and immaculate murder, the crime subconsciously works against him and causes him to feel guilty and ultimately admit it. The police did not suspect or persuade him to confess; instead, it was he who, through his own unit, admitted the crime. Growing guilt consumes the narrator, eating him from the inside, and his heightened senses blur the lines between real and imagined sound. This guilt is represented as an infuriating, sickening sound that cannot come from the middle of paper......o that allows the reader to feel, see and hear just how crazy the narrator truly is. The old man's eye symbolizes the "bad" thoughts in the narrator's mind that lead to murder. The heartbeat symbolizes the “guilt” that the narrator feels when he admits his guilty conscience. The watch symbolizes the narrator's guilt at the time of the murder. All of these elements are necessary to fully understand the mind of the narrator in his story. Readers enjoy all kinds of works, including a horrifying thriller. Poe allowed his readers in this short story to visualize and feel what the narrator felt during his plot to murder this old man he loved. Edgar Allan Poe is a great author of American literature who put all these literary devices into his work knowing that readers will have entered the mind of the narrator and will have enjoyed a great piece of history..