# Young Love — Poetry character guide

> Young Love in Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Love

**First appearance:** 0001-song

## Who they are

A personified figure of youthful love appearing in early poems.

## Relationships

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

_romantic_

Young Love is an idealized, innocent romantic passion that the narrator recalls with bittersweet nostalgia.

### [Beauty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/beauty)

_psychological_

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

### [Helen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/characters/helen)

_social_

Helen and Young Love are connected as archetypes of classical and youthful romance, often contrasted in theme.

## In the story

### [Tamerlane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/tamerlane)

The idealized beloved of the speaker's youth, whom he abandoned for ambition.

### [Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/song)

The bride on her wedding day, blushing with maiden shame and surrounded by love.

### [Dreams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/dreams)

Referenced as 'Love' within the dream's vivid coloring of life.

### [An Acrostic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/an-acrostic)

Implied as the subject of Elizabeth's denial; the poem explores the tension between professed rejection and actual affection.

### [Romance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/romance)

Romance is personified as a familiar bird that taught the speaker his earliest words, associated with youthful innocence.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/vi)

Young Hope at the side of the departed beloved.

### [Serenade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_4_se/chapters/serenade)

Referenced as 'love' in the context of the speaker's enthralling love for Adeline.

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