Poetry · Character
Psyche
The speaker's soul, walking beside him through the cypress alley and the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
supporting
First appearance: Ulalume
As a supporting figure in Poetry, Psyche is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Invoked as a figure from the holy regions, associated with the soul and beauty.
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She is both companion and conscience, the part of the speaker that remembers what he would rather forget and fears what he cannot name. In Ulalume she roams with him through misty October, her anxiety a counterweight to…
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Relationship types
- Psychological
Character groups
- Poe's Poetic Personae
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Falling action.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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psychological · ambivalent
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