Blended voice describes a poetic persona that merges multiple registers, dialects, historical periods, or cultural idioms into a single, fluid utterance, creating a polyvocal or heteroglossic effect that reflects complex identity or social reality; this technique, central to postcolonial and hybrid poetics, allows the poet to embody contradiction, translation, or diasporic consciousness, as in the work of Derek Walcott or Claudia Rankine, where language itself becomes a contested, layered space of convergence and collision.

Technique merging multiple speakers or perspectives without clear demarcation. Creates ambiguity of voice. Related: polyvocality, heteroglossia. See also: persona shift. Common in postmodern and experimental poetry.