![]() ![]() Well, ‘dissimulation’, sure: I’d have to look that one up today. Now when I look at “The Tell-Tale Heart”, I’m unsure which elements of the vocabulary seemed so overwhelming, but I recall long lists of words on the blackboard for which we had to write definitions. The ideas in the stories were deliciously satisfying, but they seem buried beneath a mass of unintelligible words. I loved books – they were my best friends at that time – but Poe’s language and structure were foreign to me. ![]() ![]() In the early 1980s, in a sixth-grade classroom in rural Ontario, a teacher used Edgar Allan Poe’s stories to supplement the assigned reader for that year’s English studies: a bitter experience for me as a young reader. ![]()
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