For full text of the poem, click HERE
THIS GIRL understands stuff that most people refuse to think about...
Image by Noel (died 1925) [Public domain], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEdgar_Allan_Poe-Poem-The_Conqueror_Worm-Noel.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a>
TERMS:
ALLEGORY
LITERAL
SYMBOLIC/FIGURATIVE
(ALLEGORICAL)