# Death — Poetry character guide

> Death in Poetry by James Joyce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Death

**First appearance:** 0036-xxxvi-i-hear-an-army-charging-upon-the-land

## Who they are

Personified death appearing in later poems as a presence or figure.

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