I want to start off by saying that Edgar Allen Poe is one of the greatest poets in history. Being a Baltimore man, he writes about things that seem bizarre to us. Imagine how his poems were viewed back when he was alive. His poems reflect the dark side of the human being. The poem is about a man who wants an old mans eye. The eye is an obsession to the man. He wants it so bad that it is driving him insane. The man even hears his own heart beat faster and faster. What is so special about the eye? What makes it so valuable that the old man never lets it go? The eye brought the old man some kind of special powers and also brought him his death. The man kills the old man in order to get the eye. The man stabs the old man in the heart. Poe takes us inside the mind of the man before he kills the old man. It feels like I am actually about to commit a murder. It seems like the man has gotten away with murder, but a neighbor hears the old mans shrieks. The man hides the old mans body under the floor of the house. The police arrive and do not suspect him. But the man reveals that he murdered the old man. The eye drove the man insane because he committed murder and confessed to a murder that he committed. The eye has control of the man, and the old man who possessed it previously. I am left wondering what the eye was.
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