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Literary notes about Enthrone (AI summary)

The word "enthrone" has been used in literature to evoke an image of ultimate power or an ideal revered above all else. In Du Bois's work [1], the term is employed to suggest the installation of a majority as if by divine right, thus lending an almost sacred legitimacy to political power. James Allen [2] uses "enthrone" to elevate an inner ideal, implying one's highest aspiration takes a royal place within the heart, guiding one’s life with supreme authority. Meanwhile, in Robert Burns’s poetry [3], the word assumes a symbolic role where it signifies becoming an inseparable, exalted element of love, effectively crowned within the beloved's heart.
  1. We have attempted to enthrone any chance majority and make it rule by divine right.
    — from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
  2. The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become.
    — from As a man thinketh by James Allen
  3. Dyvor, beggar louns to me, I reign in Jeanie's bosom! Let her crown my love her law, And in her breast enthrone me, Kings and nations—swith awa'!
    — from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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