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Know of any? I'm doing a presentation on allegorical poems and can't really find one............ an obvious one anyways...
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Omni_Skittles;1061228 wrote: Know of any? I'm doing a presentation on allegorical poems and can't really find one............ an obvious one anyways...




Allegory Poems

by Terronce Turner Henton, USA



NO IDENTITY

No shape

No face

No form

No place

No gender

No religion

No division

No race

No color

No measure

No voice

No pressure

No feeling

No healing

No concealing

No revealing

No connection

No protection

No seletion

No direction

No position

No description

No opinion

No diction

No guess

No thought

No question

No answer

What is identity?
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If you google the words 'Allegorical Poems' you will get

2,260,000 results.

hope this helps.
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You could consider the allegorical homosexuality pervading the early works of Robert Frost. Bear in mind that very few people would agree it's there though, Robert Frost's something of an untouchable icon in the USA.

You probably know The Road Not Taken, you might read Acquainted With The Night, I reckon The Tuft Of Flowers is along the same lines.
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