| It's an impressive, haunting work full of menace and obvious political allusion. |
| With its emphasis on personification and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse. |
| But any meaning could be expressed, so that the language brought into play whole new principles of allusion and definition. |
| Yet isn't this what is implied in the allusion which does not advert to the activities of the army? |
| Well, do you think an invasion of a country should be based on allusion and assertion? |
| The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion. |
