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Allegory: A figurative illustration of truths or generalizations about human conduct or experience in a narrative or description by the use of symbolic fictional figures and actions which resemble the subject's properties and circumstances. NOTE: Though similar to both a series of symbols and an extended metaphor, the meaning of an allegory is more direct and less subject to ambiguity than a symbol; it is distinguishable from an extended metaphor in that the literal equivalent of an allegory's figurative comparison is not usually expressed. NOTE: Probably the best-known allegory in English literature is Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. (Compare aphorism, apologue, didactic poetry, epigram, fable, gnome, proverb) (See also metaphor, personification)

Title Author Date Posted Date Created Ratings
Votes Creativity Form Imagery Overall
 Awoken Oliver Drewman 04/22/2004 04/22/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A Youth Forgotten D. Xavier Bari 03/16/2003 03/15/2003 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Baby Do We Care Philip F De Pinto 11/24/2013 11/24/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Baby I Am Lost Philip F De Pinto 03/14/2015 03/14/2015 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 BAD TOILET W. Mahlon Purdin 09/22/2012 08/09/2012 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Bad Weed - Blue Whale Chris Sorrenti 11/19/2019 11/19/2019 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 B and the B Philip F De Pinto 11/27/2013 11/27/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Banished D. Xavier Bari 03/25/2003 03/24/2003 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Baptists bombed the Pentagon - Explicit A. Paige White 02/14/2007 02/13/2007 3 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Bears Repeating Philip F De Pinto 02/01/2017 02/01/2017 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Beautiful Philip F De Pinto 01/13/2015 01/13/2015 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Beautiful Because Philip F De Pinto 09/23/2014 09/23/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Beautiful Schemer Philip F De Pinto 05/05/2013 05/05/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 before we were shamed into Philip F De Pinto 01/21/2013 01/21/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Being Famous Nancy Ames 02/02/2008 02/02/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 BEING IN THE MOMENT W. Mahlon Purdin 01/31/2006 01/31/2006 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Being Upper (An Electronic Song) Ame Ai 05/24/2017 05/24/2017 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Betrayal in the System of Eden D. Xavier Bari 02/01/2004 02/01/2004 1 Outstanding Well-Framed Evocative Well Written
 BETWEEN HERE AND THERE W. Mahlon Purdin 11/13/2014 11/04/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Between Ivory and Horn Kerowyn Rose 02/11/2013 02/11/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Beyond The Writing Process Philip F De Pinto 03/07/2013 03/07/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 BIRTHDAY SONG FOR YOU W. Mahlon Purdin 02/08/2013 07/31/2009 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 black magic news Gabriel Ricard 06/12/2009 06/12/2009 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 blue boy - Explicit Philip F De Pinto 01/18/2013 01/18/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Bodies Philip F De Pinto 01/17/2013 01/17/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
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