In the three works, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Edgar Allan Poe and the poems of Emily Dickinson 340 (“I -fent a funeral in my brain”) and 355 (“It Was Not Death”), each show different aspects of the depths of the human mind through similar modes of rhetorical sensory overload. While Poe reveals the effects of denying one's madness, Dickinson shows the struggle and fall of a depressed mind. Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart” describes the human mind through the struggle to distinguish reality and imagination. Poe uses the narrator/agonist to demonstrate how the suffering of perceived acuity of the senses, in relation to anxiety, leads to an unwanted climax. The narrator labels his nervous behavior as an “illness” that has “heightened [his] senses” (691). Poe's use of the term “disease” indicates disorder and destruction and also foreshadows the spread and consumption of the narrator's fear. The confidence that comes from the narrator's justified senses proves to further distance him from his own morality. For example, he states: Furthermore, his senses arise from his general obsession and hatred of the old man's eye. This is demonstrated by the continuous and distinct characteristics he places on the eye: “vulture eye,” “pale blue eye,” “evil eye,” and “accursed spot” (691-693). The collection of descriptions of his efforts to kill the old man shows the torment he suffers due to his psychosis. The narrator's statement, "he haunted me day and night," shows his motivation for killing the old man. However, the significance of the narrator actually committing the murderous act demonstrates the ultimate loss of his rationality and morality. Poe shows that the dark side of the mind is the result of this loss…half of the paper…veil from their faces,” illustrates the obsession possessed by the citizens that distracts their possible reflection and understanding of their own sin symbolized in the veil black of the minister. Furthermore, the minister seems to bear the burden/sins of his fellow citizens, and so does Goodman Brown, in the sense that he perceives and imagines everyone's sin brought to light before his eyes Since Goodman Brown allowed his opinion negative on others to dominate his life, “his moment of death was dark” (Hawthorne 395). The significance of his end demonstrates his inability to accept sin as part of human nature. The culmination of sin demonstrated in both works shows the overwhelming power of sin to control a human being demonstrates that one cannot consider oneself righteous anymore because one's accusations and someone else's judgment are therefore sin itself.