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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
 A Day for Grace Mark Maxey 06/27/2008 06/27/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A Different Clock John Nivel 06/14/2005 06/14/2005 3 Outstanding Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 A Father's Blessing Matthew Zangen 05/12/2008 05/12/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A Female To Be Philip F De Pinto 04/16/2014 04/16/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A FEW WORDS IN FAVOR OF UNREQUITED LOVE Terry Olynik 01/06/2007 01/05/2007 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A FIRE CRACKLES Mark Maxey 01/30/2005 12/04/2004 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 A FLASH OF PINK W. Mahlon Purdin 06/27/2014 07/04/1976 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 after all Philip F De Pinto 01/17/2013 01/17/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 After the Spanish Civil War Edmundo Returns to Madrid.... - Explicit Lisa Marie Brodsky 11/25/2004 11/25/2004 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 AGAPE W. Mahlon Purdin 12/26/2017 12/26/2006 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Ahoy Mates Tony Whitaker 12/30/2006 12/30/2006 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Alabama Leonard M Hawkes 12/07/2004 12/06/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Albrecht Philip F De Pinto 11/27/2013 11/27/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Alcatraz Maureen Glaude 02/23/2004 02/23/2004 5 Brilliant Well-Framed Vivid Memorable
 A Lesson From Those Usually Loathed Chris Sorrenti 04/20/2008 04/20/2008 8 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 a letter to myself for future pasts forgotten Gary Hoffmann 09/20/2001 09/20/2001 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Alien Love - Explicit Nancy Ames 01/25/2008 01/24/2008 1 Brilliant Well-Framed Evocative Well Written
 Alive And Kicking Philip F De Pinto 01/22/2013 01/22/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 all her days and nights Philip F De Pinto 01/18/2013 01/18/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 ALL MY POEMS ARE WAR POEMS W. Mahlon Purdin 05/02/2015 04/23/2015 3 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 All Their Lives Philip F De Pinto 09/26/2014 09/26/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Alone, I Eat with Dirty Hands Leonard M Hawkes 04/03/2015 04/02/2015 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 A MAJESTIC POSE W. Mahlon Purdin 08/01/2010 07/16/2010 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 American Atlas D. Xavier Bari 09/03/2016 08/06/2016 1 Outstanding Well-Framed Vivid Memorable
 Am Morgen (I) Leonard M Hawkes 11/14/2005 11/13/2005 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
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