Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short story writer and editor; some of his best-known poems include: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Raven". Edgar Allen Poe is among the most important authors of Dark Romanticism; his work as an editor and poet has had a strong impact on American and international literature. He is known as the "architect" of modern short stories and among the first analysts to focus primarily on the effects of style and structure in a literary work. Edgar Allan Poe's literary style and themes are better known as "Gothic". His most recurring themes concern issues of death and lost love. In his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe writes about murder, madness, obsession, and guilt. Poe makes death intriguing and terrifying with his brilliant dark mind. His work is primarily characterized by the genre of dark romance and its tone can be described as feeling “melancholy” or “darkness”. Edgar Allan Poe has the talent of discovering the development of madness in people; a condition not debated or analyzed in the society of his time. Poe uses the following rhetorical figures: figurative language, symbolism, repetition, and imagery throughout his short stories and poems to better captivate his audience with his brilliant dark tactics. Poe also uses hyphens to demonstrate agitation or terror in the narrator. Commonly, when repeated dashes appear in his works, the narrator is in an altered mental state. With the techniques discussed above, Poe maintains the state of confusion, horror, and disorder during times of pain and suspense in his works. In his poem "The Raven", Poe uses many different elements of literature, especially symbols; the raven sy...... in the center of the card ......with setting and tone. Poe often creates a chilling atmosphere through setting stories in specific isolated locations with a combination of bad weather and disease. Together, these elements are essential to many of his stories and make the stories systematically dark and abstruse. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven” are two of Poe's stories in which atmosphere is an influential literary element. In conclusion, one of Edgar Allan Poe's notable masterpieces was his ability to create crooked characters. In addition to the unreliable narrators in many of Poe's stories, Poe had a penchant for adding psychological or physical conditions and ailments to many of his stories. A mental disorder in characters is so typical in Poe's work that readers familiar with enough of his stories tend to automatically question the characters' sanity..