allegory

The allegory is a tad thick: Humanity rots inside the gates, dignity stands tall outside.

If I wrote this in a book in 1965 … if it got published at all, it would be published as an allegory, like Animal Farm,” he said.

The LP synthesized decades of popular music — soul, jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll — to create a new musical language, while its depth-filled lyrics are a rich text full of allegories and religious imagery.

Scholars have long interpreted Gast’s infamous work as an allegory about Manifest Destiny — that the U.S. had a God-given right to seize as much of the American continent as it could.

But just as much as he makes a statement about the inhumane treatment of immigrants, Gunn crafts what is perhaps an even more daring allegory about Palestinian genocide.