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.
Often ânew writers feel most comfortable with first-person, but writing in the third-person often allows a writer more freedom in how a story is told. Third-person omniscient point of view is generally the most objective and trustworthy viewpoint since an all-knowing narrator is telling the story.