# Poetry — Character guide

> Key figures in Poetry by James Joyce.

- [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/narrator.md): The unnamed first-person speaker who experiences love, loss, and reflection throughout the poems.
- [Beloved](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/beloved.md): The central love interest addressed by the narrator, often depicted as distant or lost.
- [Love](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/love.md): Personified love that visits the narrator in memories of past joy.
- [Death](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/death.md): Personified death appearing in later poems as a presence or figure.
- [Daughter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/daughter.md): The poet's daughter, recipient of a flower in a brief poem.
- [Rahoon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/rahoon.md): A deceased beloved mourned by a weeping woman in a poem.
- [Weeping Woman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/weeping_woman.md): A woman grieving over Rahoon's grave in a short lyric.
- [Players](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_11_se/characters/players.md): Ghostly figures seen in a mirror at midnight in a poem.

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