| The story works at the realistic, allegorical, moral, and anagogic levels. |
| Blake's use and advocacy of the linear style and attention to the anagogic principles of medieval art aligns him with the illustrator of Piers Plowman. |
| The fact that medieval thinkers considered intellectual activity to be anagogic, that is, something that brings us toward a higher being, enlightenment, etc. |
