An Allegory Explained

The allegory:

Mr. Romantic married Miss Practical.  She became Mrs. Romantic.

The explanation:

A lot of allegories are lame.  One good use of allegory is to make something concrete for yourself that you have a hard time putting into words.

The allegory of Mr. Romantic and Miss Practical is like that.  Here are multiple attempts to put it into words.

1. Sentiment and glory are good but incomplete by themselves.  The person full of glorious notions [Mr. Romantic] has to set aside all of that for a bit to venture out into the world of cold facts and hard reasons and discover truths there [Miss Practical].   Mr. Romantic then  needs to embrace those truths so fully that eventually he can discover the glory and sentiment that are in them.  The cold hard truths become romantic truths.
2. The whole Barfield thing where mankind starts off in the flow, then we go abstract and rational and separate from nature, and then we consciously go back to the first.  What Spengler calls the Second Religiosity.  What the Savior calls becoming as a little child.
3. On the virtue charts there is a hot virtue and a cold virtue.  I increasingly think that the hot virtue is the main virtue, so to speak.  But without being tempered by the cold virtue, it becomes a vice.  Not just tempered.  The true synthesis of virtue is when you can be bold and passionate and feeling about the cold virtue too.
4. When I was younger the doctrine of deification/theosis horrified me.  In the guise of ‘you get your own planet’ it seemed extremely crude and materialistic.  But I kept gnawing away at it and it has illumined so many things with light

This allegory may just be Poet Head in another guise.