Such, then, in the poetical allegory, the conception is always the given, which it tries to make perceptible by means of a picture; it may sometimes be expressed or assisted by a painted picture. Such a picture will not be regarded as a work of art, but only as a significant symbol, and it makes no claim to pictorial, but only to poetical worth.
Alegoria poetikoan kontzeptua beti emana denez gero, zeina irudi baten bitartez begiesgarri bihurtu nahi baita, batzuetan irudi pintatu baten bitartez adierazi edo euskarritu egin daiteke: hori orduan ez da arte plastikoko obra bezala kontsideratzen, baizik hieroglifo adierazle gisa, eta ez du balore pinturazkoen erreibindikaziorik egiten, poetikoena soilik.