# Death — Poetry character guide

> Death in Poetry by James Weldon Johnson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** bony Death, Old Death

**First appearance:** 0067-go-down-death

## Who they are

Personified figure of death in the poem Go Down Death.

## Links

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