Frequently allusive and imagistic, word sonnets can also be irreverent and playful. The poem is deeply allegorical and allusive. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. Masson painted a surrealist, allusive version of . Part 7 is the most fragmented, most allusive, most lyrical part of the poem. Its language was allusive and ironic, its overall structure whimsical. Its language is allusive and ironic, and its overall structure is whimsical. Maxwell, he said, often appeared obscure and had "a paradoxical and allusive way of speaking". The book is highly allusive and puns in multiple languages. As a writer, he is known for his encyclopedic, highly allusive style and learned wit. Like Muldoon's, Carson's work was intensely allusive. The most densely allusive work in modern English may be "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. Many characters in the novel have names that are allusive word games. A lengthy, complex, and allusive work, it had to wait to find its audience. The activists also sprayed allusive graffiti over its pedestal.