In the poem Le dormeur du val (The Sleeper in the Valley) by Arthur Rimbaud, the character of the sleeper is not a real person, but rather a symbolic representation of the beauty and innocence of nature. The poem describes a young soldier who has fallen asleep in a peaceful valley, surrounded by the sounds of nature and the gentle warmth of the sun. The sleeper is not an actual person, but rather a metaphor for the idyllic state of nature, untouched by the violence and war of the outside world.