Allegory In Edith Nesbitt's Poem 'The Despot'
Edith Nesbitt's poem, "The Despot", is an interesting one. In the poem the speaker is an unknown oberver merely watching and narrating. The writer uses allegory when he finally introduces the despot, and we find that he is the gardener. Wild flowers are compaired to "cultured slaves", in that they are as beautiful as any flowers but to the owner of the garden, the despot himself, they are nothing. The poem praised the little wild flowers for having courage to grow but the unawareness of the truth about themselves. The poem is an allegory in my opinion because it shows that a leader can be destructive to the ones he must take care