A World Made of Atoms Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 12 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A World Made of Atoms.

A World Made of Atoms Characters

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The poem, technically, contains one character: the speaker, who directly addresses the reader and narrates the events of the poem. However, the speaker barely appears in "A World Made by Atoms." There are no instances of the first person singular, only of the first person plural, as in "we build" (5). The speaker never speaks for themself, only for humanity as a group, and without providing any details about who they are or what sort of person they might be. By having such a minimal role for the speaker, the poem allows the philosophical ideas to speak for themselves.

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