# Psyche — Poetry character guide

> Psyche in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0066-ulalume

## Snapshot

The speaker's soul, walking beside him through the cypress alley and the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

## Who they are

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 his reckless grief. She matters because she makes the poems' inner life visible, turning the soul's dread and devotion into a figure who can walk, speak, and warn.

## Relationships

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

_psychological_

Psyche represents the narrator's own soul or inner self, with whom he engages in introspective dialogue.

## In the story

### [To Helen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/to-helen)

Invoked as a figure from the holy regions, associated with the soul and beauty.

### [Ulalume](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/ulalume)

The narrator's soul, who senses danger and mistrusts the crescent moon, but is persuaded to continue.

## Links

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