Poe

Poe was a man that many to this day consider a lunatic an extreme individual with a love for the bizarre. Yet I consider him and a man with a great gift and knowledge of understanding the human conscience and mental thought patterns of people. His use of this gift was apparent in many of his works from black cat to writings such as the fall of the house of usher. His use of imagery and iron is most provident perhaps in his stories of the mask of the red death and the very popular tell tale heart.

Both stories contain a great deal of irony symbolism imagery and allusion for his depiction of every detail of a room or the vivid images supplied when a killer mentions how a murder took place he is capable of placing every detail possible into a mind before a climax takes place. This is a great talent for a sum of small