C.S. Lewis on the distinction between allegory and symbolism
C.S. Lewis on the distinction between allegory and symbolism:
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~dsulliva/classes/lewis/symbolism_allegory.htm
If you are hesitating between an angry retort and a soft answer, you can express your state of mind by inventing a person called Ira with a torch and letting her contend with another invented person called Patientia. This is allegory . . .
If our passions, being immaterial, can be copied by material inventions, then it is possible that our material world in its turn is the copy of an invisible world. As the god Amor and his figurative garden are to the actual passions of men, so perhaps we ourselves and our ‘real’ world are to something else.