The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion. |
It seems to me that your observations about the need to use imagery, metaphor and allusion correctly are well taken. |
Yet isn't this what is implied in the allusion which does not advert to the activities of the army? |
The stanza is written like the formulaic examples of wit and allusion in old-fashioned riddle books. |
But any meaning could be expressed, so that the language brought into play whole new principles of allusion and definition. |
Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful. |