Literary notes about APPLE (AI summary)
The word "apple" in literature often serves as a versatile symbol that can embody sweetness, desire, and both temptation and reward. In some works it denotes affection and treasured value—being referred to as the "apple of one’s eye" where it signifies deep personal attachment ([1], [2])—while in others it represents the duality of nature, appearing as a literal fruit with a good side and a poisoned one ([3], [4]). It also appears in myth and folklore, from golden apples that spark quests for beauty or power ([5], [6]) to apples rooted in everyday life that evoke nostalgia and natural imagery ([7], [8]). Additionally, modern texts cleverly incorporate the apple to evoke technological associations or as an allegorical marker of forbidden fruit, demonstrating its enduring and multifaceted presence in narrative art ([9], [10]).
- Literally, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - "No," replied the father, "he is the apple of my eye, and all the money in the world cannot buy him from me."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - Now the apple was so prepared that one side was good, though the other side was poisoned.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - Now the apple was so made up that one side was good, though the other side was poisoned.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - If the golden apple be taken The world will be overwise.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - “Hast thou the golden apple?” asked the King.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - The golden-rod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 2, September 1900
Illustrated by Color Photography by Various - A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson - Some connectors have 9 pins/holes, while others have 25 or 8- pin round plugs (Apple computers).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - In these, man may rightfully indulge; but he was forbidden the experience of sex, the 'apple' at the center of the bodily garden.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda