# Poetry — Character guide

> Key figures in Poetry by Mina Loy.

- [Ova](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/ova.md): Ova grows up in middle-class Britain, surrounded by governesses and nurses who let life alone lest it discomfort them, while her mother's vagaries drift through the household. Her childhood is anemic hours devoid of vita
- [Giovanni Franchi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/giovanni_franchi.md): Giovanni Franchi haunts Paszkowski's and the piazzas of Florence, his articulations excellent, his wrists explaining things infectiously, his adolescence all there is of him. He is disciple to the philosopher Giovanni Ba
- [Exodus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/exodus.md): Crushed by the Occident and lashed by tongues in lieu of knouts, Exodus trades the Danube's indifference for the pound-sterling's alien asylum, where his coaly eye challenges the unrevealed universe and his business-Engl
- [Esau Penfold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/esau_penfold.md): Esau Penfold is the boy for whom Patricia Penfold wrote The Infant Aesthete, displayed at Lady Bliss's costume ball where matrons put themselves on the order list and professors discourse on calculus over his head. In th
- [Ada](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/ada.md): Ada is the widowed mother who took a spouse of her own sphere and whose unfortunate having given birth to a criminal the neighbors read in Ova's every posture. Her vagaries—changed to her daughter's experience—shape Ova'
- [Giovanni Bapini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/giovanni_bapini.md): A philosopher figure, possibly a satirical portrait of a real thinker.
- [Nurse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/nurse.md): A caretaker figure, likely a governess or domestic servant.
- [Cesira](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/cesira.md): A female character, possibly a servant or acquaintance in Italy.
- [Raminetti](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/raminetti.md): A minor character, possibly an artist or intellectual.
- [Miss Bunn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/miss_bunn.md): A governess or teacher figure in Ova's childhood.
- [Danriel Gabrunzio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/danriel_gabrunzio.md): A minor character, possibly an Italian acquaintance.
- [Perlun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/perlun.md): A character associated with a specific poem or section.
- [Lea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/lea.md): A minor female character, possibly a friend or relative.
- [Lord Israel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/lord_israel.md): A titled character, possibly a satirical figure.
- [Benger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/benger.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or neighbor.
- [Elena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/elena.md): A minor female character, possibly from Italian scenes.
- [Lady Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/lady_bliss.md): A titled female character, possibly a socialite.
- [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/mary.md): A figure conflated with the poet Mina Loy, possibly autobiographical.
- [Jehovah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_17_se/characters/jehovah.md): A satirical personification of God or a tailor.

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