Prelude. Just before the battle, Grant had captured Jackson, Mississippi, and Pemberton retreated to the west. Attempts to stop the Union advance at Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge were unsuccessful.
The point of view is that of the first person. Poe decided to write 'The Tell-tale Heart' from the point of view of the young man that is living with the old man. Through this poem, the narrator tells us how he isn't mad or insane, but how it takes cunning to kill the old man he's living with.
Authors can choose from the first person, the second person, or the third person point of view. In the first person point of view, which frequently uses the pronoun 'I', one of the story's characters serves as a narrator and readers watch the story unfold through that character's eyes. The second person point of view makes the reader a character in the story and directly addresses the reader as 'you'. In the third person point of view, the narrator is someone outside the story, who frequently uses pronouns, like 'he,' 'she,' and 'they,' to describe the characters.