Poe's use of darkness is a motif that he casually slides in into every poem, or fictional story he writes. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe mentioned the thickness of the dark when he went into the old mans room to kill him, but then later stated, he couldn't kill this man, because it wasn't the man he hated, it was the eye and he can't see the eye in the dark, so he couldn't bring himself to do it (he did eventually though). In "The Black Cat" the cat was black and its name was "Pluto". In Roman Mythology, Pluto is the name of the God of the Underworld, the underworld is a dark place (not literally). In the story "The Raven", the Raven was a black bird, Ravens usually symbolize death, I hope you see where this is going. Lastly, "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe, at the end of this story, it talks specifically about hell bells and funeral bells. It talks about the how melancholy and monotone ghouls, this represents sadness.
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