# Fame — Poetry character guide

> Fame in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

A personified force that poets court and critics counterfeit, she is the fickle mistress whose trumpet blares for the worthy and the loud alike.

## In the story

### [A Teagoing Admiral](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-teagoing-admiral)

Referenced as 'Fame's loud trumpet' that will extol the hero's deeds.

### [My Day of Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/my-day-of-life)

Personified as blaring the narrator's name with an ominous death-rattle in a dream of battle.

### [A Fish Commissioner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-fish-commissioner)

The goddess of Fame, angered by Redding's confusion, uses ink to defame him through the press.

### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xxiii)

Personified as a trumpet that brays about Dr. May, highlighting the hollow nature of public acclaim.

### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xxvii)

Personified as concluding the record of Greer Harrison's life with 'Dirt to dirt!'

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