# Fancy — Poetry character guide

> Fancy in Poetry by John Keats.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** sweet Fancy, the Fancy

**First appearance:** 0040-sleep-and-poetry

## Who they are

The personified faculty of imagination and whimsy.

## In the story

### [Fancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_14_se/chapters/fancy)

Central personification of imagination, depicted as a winged, roaming force that brings together all seasonal delights and escapes the satiety of ordinary pleasure.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_14_se/chapters/v)

The gardener Fancy who breeds unique flowers in the mind.

### [Ode to a Nightingale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_14_se/chapters/ode-to-a-nightingale)

Personified as a deceiving elf that cannot sustain the illusion of escape.

## Links

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