Everything for me becomes allegory.
quote by Charles Baudelaire
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The Bee (Chapter 16, Verses 75-76, Holy Koran)
I ask for refuge to Allah from Satan the exiled evildoer.
In the name of Allah the Kind and the Merciful Giver.
Allah has here set forth an allegory, just consider
A slave the property of another
Therefore he has no power
On the contrary
One who is granted a handsome sustenance so he
Spends from it secretly and openly -
Are the two similar?
Praise is due to Allah
But most of the people are not aware.
And Allah has set forth anther allegory, now consider
Two persons, one of them is dumb
Unable to do anything on his own
Thus he is a burden to his master
Wherever he is sent he brings no good outcome
Can he be held equal with him, who
Has enjoined what is just
And is also on the straight avenue.
poem by Asif Andalib
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Caution
I've thrown
Caution
To the wind.
Come and
Catch me or I'll
Blow away with
The storm.
(Theme: Allegory)
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
quote by Naguib Mahfouz
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V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
quote by David Lloyd
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Sometimes Poetry's More Similar to Politics Than I'd Care to Think About
O, metaphor!
O, simile!
O, allegory!
Jelly beans!
O, fable, myth!
Oh, silly me -
Disguising what
I really mean.
poem by Heidi K. Haskell
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Joseph Campbell Knew
Joseph knew the power of myth
This champion of archaic allegory
Storyteller, Master Wordsmith
Of magical, mythological stories
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
quote by Manuel Puig
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
When They Move In
he speaks in allegory
to eyes of common man
listening for wisdom
soothing to old ears
boring to new shoots
preferred rap culture
speech is short barely
finish my half-dessert
i could sum it up clear
'go love your neighbors'
everybody of us does that
when did you say 'hello! '
poem by Manonton Dalan
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What is METAPHOR, anyway?
Quiet down, class
Mick wants to lecture you
about one of his pet subjects
METAPHOR
in poetry and verse
What's an analogy?
Is it a comparison? Of how many things?
How are they alike?
Synonyms - image, symbol, trope, figure
of speech, simile, allegory, correlation,
likeness, personification
You know these things?
poem by Michael Pruchnicki
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A novel is not an allegory... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
Azar Nafisi in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
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The Stage is Set
This whirlwind romance
has lasted through
the years and all the sex
we’ve had,
Between the imagery
of our thoughts
Converged
by the seductive poetry, And,
by-the-way, you’re always great
Even for a minute
when we escaped
Among the verses and stanzas
And the proverbial path twists
Searching every square inch
Ever blind in the mist
Slowly rounding curves
Softly, whispering lips
Reciting visions of you
unforgettably
your swirling scenes
have encompassed me
After all,
you are, my allegory
poem by Marcus McKinley
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Sonnet XXVIII: You That With Allegory's Curious Frame
You that with allegory's curious frame,
Of others' children changelings use to make,
With me those pains for God's sake do not take:
I list not dig so deep for brazen fame.
When I say "Stella," I do mean the same
Princess of Beauty, for whose only sake
The reins of Love I love, though never slake,
And joy therein, though nations count it shame.
I beg no subject to use eloquence,
Nor in hid ways do guide Philosophy:
Look at my hands for no such quintessence;
But know that I in pure simplicity
Breathe out the flames which burn within my heart
Love only reading unto me this art.
poem by Philip Sidney
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Allegory
It's an all too common allegory
Pressed from the hands of time
Lent out silent praised theme
Careless whispers never hard to find
With redeeming qualities fading
An elevation of angers hot glow
Bitterness is the totality it's framing
Seperating rightous victims who know
Blazing through their transparent veils
The blame is countered with denial
Running rapidly from the inner problem's core
Slowing down but for a little while
At last catching up to the blameworthy
Who brazenly sit atop the Moon
Arrogantly still in denial
Their rude awakening is coming soon
poem by Theodora Onken
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Gone To Seed
“If you plant honesty, you’ll reap trust”
Aye, the seeds of doubt have been planted,
But such doubts are a must,
If wisdom’s to be granted…..
Seeds of valor, seeds of passion,
Seeds of equanimity;
Seeds that suit every fashion,
Of learning and acuity.
Leaders who sow such seeds of doubt,
Are welcome and accounted,
Than those who’d love to flaunt,
Are ones that are so vaunted.
Where honesty is a truthful story,
Tests one’s heart and mind;
Now enough’s been said of this allegory,
Dear readers: this truth you can find!
Copyright © SC
10th July 2007
Mumbai.
poem by Subroto Chatterjee
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Philosophy 101
I could write a clever allegory
All decked out in a shining
Red Banner
Of moral principles
And superimpose it
Across the turquoise sky
But my lanes of life
Are more standard procedure now
From the just getting through
Yet another day
To holding close
Those dearest and most precious
I used to run in faster circles
Someitmes chasing my own tail
Only to dind myself
Back to square one
Looking now for the silver lining
In the clouds
I often peak behind the sun
For a little something extra
Somedays i find
An extra ray of hope
It carries me through that day
Into tomorrow
I am treading softer now
Quiet not to stir or wake
The slumber of those
Who have more than earned
Their rest
Guess getting older
Changes most everything
poem by Theodora Onken
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Shiva 2-Jothilingam-Thiruvannamalai
The holy fire vast is aghast cool
Poleless source of a soul to rule
Matted flames of a roll whole
Mounded mien dominant silence sole
Myth of mysteries truth of an allegory
Fiery defeat of Brahma, Vishnu a divine arbitrary
He is the force of macrocosmic theory
Power of allpowers a surpassing glory
Do not doubt the ism of nature
Omnipresent the Lord to venture
Fiery His blessings to nurture
At Thiruvannamalai esteemed His stature
Consorted with Unnamulai, elated our rapture
poem by Indira Renganathan
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Corn On The Cob
I come from the land of locusts.
Periodically, on rare occasions,
back when there was no concern
over climate changes
and the Sirocco blew over Casablanca
the skies turned somberly gloomy.
The feast after their landing was pan-fried.
Locusts with cumin spices. Cruncheeeeee!
In fact there is compensation
Nature has a way to substitute a simile
For an allegory or the real thing.
We just have to learn to swallow it.
OK, you wait for an intelligent comment
& the one thing I remark
about the locust aftermath is that there's
no corn in sight any longer.
Don't take this too close
to the kernel of your cob!
Much chuckling... maize! Mas maize!
poem by Alex Nodopaka
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