# Lenore — Poetry character guide

> Lenore in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0060-lenore

## Who they are

The lost beloved whose name the speaker whispers into the darkness, an absence that haunts every echo and every hope of forgetting.

## Relationships

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

_psychological_

Lenore is the lost, idealized beloved whose absence drives the narrator's obsessive grief and madness.

## In the story

### [Lenore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/lenore)

The deceased beloved, described as the 'queenliest dead' who died young, with life still in her hair but death in her eyes.

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

The lost beloved whose memory haunts the narrator throughout the poem.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/endnotes)

Implied through references to 'The Raven' and Poe's elegiac themes, though not explicitly named in the excerpts.

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