# Death — Poetry character guide

> Death in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0003-spirits-of-the-dead

## Who they are

A personified figure of death that appears in multiple poems as a looming presence or antagonist.

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