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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
 Mosquito Philip F De Pinto 01/19/2013 01/19/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 My Best Lacy D Phillips 10/27/2001 10/27/2001 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 My Life Philip F De Pinto 01/19/2013 01/19/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 My Look Down Life Philip F De Pinto 01/22/2013 01/22/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 My Love Was A Riveting Rose Philip F De Pinto 02/12/2015 02/12/2015 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Mystical Transmissions Mark Maxey 10/31/2010 10/31/2010 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 My Words Steven Craig 01/13/2008 01/12/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Nameless Philip F De Pinto 01/22/2013 01/22/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Need Not Be Told Philip F De Pinto 08/17/2013 08/16/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 NEVER CHANGES W. Mahlon Purdin 08/19/2008 06/08/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 never the more Philip F De Pinto 01/18/2013 01/18/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 new order of things Philip F De Pinto 05/01/2013 05/01/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 No Better Dwelling Philip F De Pinto 03/01/2013 03/01/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Nobody Feeds The Pigeons Anymore JD Clay 09/07/2003 06/24/2003 14 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 no full grown man Philip F De Pinto 01/17/2013 01/17/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 No More Perfect Strangers Philip F De Pinto 07/19/2014 07/19/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 No Sexton JD Clay 09/25/2003 03/05/2002 24 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 not from lack of love Philip F De Pinto 02/19/2013 02/19/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 not quite hopeless Gabriel Ricard 11/09/2009 11/09/2009 3 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Not The Kind Philip F De Pinto 11/30/2013 11/30/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Not Too Old Or Too Late To Pick Bones Philip F De Pinto 10/06/2014 10/06/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 NOVEMBERS THAW Mark Maxey 01/17/2005 11/27/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Oblivion: Hold the Date D. Xavier Bari 02/16/2003 02/16/2003 4 Outstanding Well-Framed Evocative Well Written
 O'Brian Leonard M Hawkes 04/20/2005 04/14/2005 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Ode To A Black Comb Philip F De Pinto 06/22/2016 06/22/2016 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
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