intended for it to be an allegory. An allegory is a literary device used

to give a literary work two different meanings. One meaning is easily

understood, but the second meaning is expressed through a more subtle

approach. In a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser wrote, “Sir

knowing how doubtfully all Allegories may be construed, and this booke of

mine, which I have entituled the Faery Queene, being a continued Allegory,

or dark conceit...” (514). In the letter, he is explaining to the readers

that it is an allegory, so that they will look for a hidden

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