# Boss Shepherd — Poetry character guide

> Boss Shepherd in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Boss, Shepherd

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

Boss Shepherd, known simply as Boss or Shepherd, wields authority with a swagger that Bierce's verse delights in measuring and mocking.

## In the story

### [An Inscription](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/an-inscription)

Subject of the proposed monument inscription

### [The Passing of Shepherd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-passing-of-shepherd)

The deceased subject of the elegy, a benefactor and public figure whose death elicits hypocritical grief.

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