Literary notes about Cyclone (AI summary)
The word cyclone is used with remarkable versatility in literature, often serving as both a literal meteorological phenomenon and a powerful metaphor for tumult and transformation. In some works, a cyclone embodies uncontrollable natural force, sweeping through settings and characters’ lives with inexorable energy ([1], [2], [3]). At other times, it captures the whirlwind dynamics of emotion or social change, as when a cheer is described as a "vocal cyclone" ([4]) or when the chaos of conflict is likened to a cyclone’s ferocity ([5], [6]). In fantastical narratives like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the cyclone becomes a vehicle for adventure and surreal transition, whisking characters away to strange new worlds ([7], [8], [9]). This rich imagery reveals the cyclone’s dual role in literature as an emblem of both nature’s raw power and the unpredictable forces that shape human experience.
- It was one mighty cyclone, or circular storm,—a gigantic whirlwind,—which traversed that region at the rate of about sixteen miles an hour.
— from The Ocean and Its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - In recent times a cyclone took the whole crop, as you may say; and the island never saw a finer one.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain - On every side were evidences of the terrific power of the cyclone.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young - A great, combined cheer shot up—a cheer that was a vocal cyclone!
— from The Submarine Boys and the SpiesDodging the Sharks of the Deep by Victor G. Durham - They charged like a cyclone, and cut their way out.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - At the end of that period, I suddenly felt as if I had been caught up in the tail of a cyclone.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse - The cyclone had set the house down very gently--for a cyclone--in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - "There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife; "I'll go look after the stock."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - You also came through the air, being carried by a cyclone.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
