# Beauty — Poetry character guide

> Beauty in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** young Beauty

**First appearance:** 0004-evening-star

## Who they are

A personified concept of beauty that appears as a character in several poems.

## Relationships

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/narrator)

_psychological_

Beauty is an abstract, obsessive ideal that the narrator pursues and contemplates, often with melancholic longing.

### [Young Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/young_love)

_psychological_

Beauty and Young Love are intertwined abstract ideals, representing the fleeting perfection of youth and desire.

### [Ianthe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/ianthe)

_friendship_

Beauty and Ianthe are kindred ethereal spirits, both embodying transcendent loveliness in the narrator's imagination.

## In the story

### [To the River ⸻](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-the-river)

The beloved figure, referred to as 'Alberto's daughter,' whose image is reflected in the river and in the speaker's heart.

### [Al Aaraaf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/al-aaraaf)

Personified as a guiding force and the 'Idea of Beauty' that descends upon Earth.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/i)

Referenced as the 'Idea of Beauty' born from the lovely Earth, embodied in the celestial realm.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/ii)

Referenced as 'Dead beauty' whose honor is compromised by mourners' tears.

### [The Sleeper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/the-sleeper)

Personified as sleeping throughout the landscape; the line 'All Beauty sleeps!' introduces the theme of slumbering loveliness.

### [To Frances S. Osgood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-frances-s-osgood)

Referenced as 'more than beauty' in the praise of Frances's qualities.

## Links

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