Faerie Queene

ALLEGORY: The Faerie Queene, written by Edmund Spenser in the late 1500s, is an allegorical tale created to teach its readers how to live up to the six virtues Spenser explores in each book. The first half was published in 1590 and a second installment in 1596. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in...

Beowulf Allegory, Heroic Poem

Allegory: Allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons within a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative. It is a type of writing that has hidden meanings, usually political or moral ones. According to J.D. Cuddon the term allegory is “any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning”. Beowulf was...