But tomorrow i die, and today i would unburthren my soul. why does poe place this line near the beginning of the story

My guess would be to get the reader thinking hard. They would ask the question like yu just did, "Why did he just say that at the beginning." My guess would be so they look fo clues to tell what he means by saying this. This is not how we normally write, so we would have to pay attention and look for clues to interperet what he means.

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The Artimes Wolf

The correct answer is, to foreshadow events to come and make the reader wonder what the narrator has done.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

the correct answer would b,   to show that she was very influential in the democratic party.