# Poetry — Character guide

> Key figures in Poetry by C. S. Lewis.

- [Dymer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/dymer.md): Dymer is the poem's restless center: a youth who has already wooed and won the bridal earth, only to find the world unmasked as a ruinous land of broken trees and dead pools. When a scarred, angelic stranger yields his a
- [the Master](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/the_master.md): The Master presides over a lonely house buried in folded fields, where Dymer wakes from a drunken sleep and asks for water. He is a man released from some wrong control, his eye unsteady, his lip loose, until terror snap
- [Bran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/bran.md): Bran commands the ragged column that abandoned the Perfect City, hunting murmurs of dissent through its ranks with shrieks and gunfire. When the dying man in the dark recounts how Bran's men cut away his hands and feet a
- [Joy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/joy.md): Joy exists in the poem as the tender counterweight to Dymer's ruin: he wakes screaming from a dream of being in her arms, and the waking world that will not end becomes the worst hour for flesh and blood. She is desire a
- [Despoina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/despoina.md): A female character with a brief but significant role.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_3_se/characters/mother.md): Dymer's mother, mentioned in his backstory.

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