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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
 Apricots and Promontory Leonard M Hawkes 04/22/2009 04/26/1993 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 arbitrary and appaling - Explicit Gabriel Ricard 07/07/2013 07/07/2013 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Arbutus (Madrone) Leonard M Hawkes 08/23/2015 08/23/2015 1 Outstanding Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 A REASONABLE MAN Terry Olynik 08/16/2005 08/16/2005 1 Outstanding Outstanding Flow Vivid Well Written
 Art Not Philip F De Pinto 01/18/2013 01/18/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As If She Were Still Philip F De Pinto 10/01/2014 10/01/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A Silly Song Melina Raven Maness Diebold 04/02/2002 04/02/2002 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As in a mirror Jim Benz 08/14/2009 08/14/2009 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As One Is Prone Philip F De Pinto 01/14/2015 01/14/2015 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Assault On A Peach Philip F De Pinto 01/19/2013 01/19/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As The Magpies Flown Philip F De Pinto 04/26/2014 04/26/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 AS THE YEARS GO BY W. Mahlon Purdin 02/08/2013 11/25/2012 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 A Stifling Notion Philip F De Pinto 04/11/2013 04/11/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As Two Hewn Philip F De Pinto 01/21/2013 01/21/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As Would Envy Saturn Philip F De Pinto 09/23/2014 09/23/2014 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 As Yet Due You Philip F De Pinto 07/19/2013 07/19/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Atlas Uriel Tovar 07/24/2012 07/24/2012 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 At Mass Uriel Tovar 12/04/2004 12/03/2004 3 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Attained material Aaron Howard 10/13/2003 10/13/2003 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 August Rose Ashley Lane 07/04/2007 11/02/2000 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 auto-pilot saves the hour - Explicit Gabriel Ricard 08/19/2013 08/18/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Auto Row Ronald A Pavellas 04/09/2012 04/09/2012 2 Imaginative Well-Framed Evocative Well Written
 Autumn Waits - Explicit Maria Kintner 10/08/2021 10/08/2021 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Awakening Michele Schottelkorb 03/15/2014 03/15/2014 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 A Wind Queries Philip F De Pinto 04/30/2013 04/30/2013 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
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