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Literary notes about Field (AI summary)

The word “field” in literature assumes a range of meanings that both ground narratives in tangible landscapes and elevate them to metaphorical dimensions. In pastoral passages, it signifies open country and agricultural expanse, evoking bucolic imagery as when corn or wheat is reaped ([1], [2], [3]). In contrast, in military contexts it becomes the battleground where valor is tested, as noted in vivid depictions of combat ([4], [5], [6]). Authors also extend its use to mark realms of intellectual or practical pursuit, creating a space of endeavor or inquiry ([7], [8], [9], [10]). Thus, through diverse deployments—from the sacred lands of biblical texts to the epic arenas of legendary wars—the term enriches literary settings by bridging the physical with the symbolic ([11], [12]).
  1. The stalks are left standing in the field.
    — from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  2. It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  3. He wrought also a field of harvest corn, and the reapers were reaping with sharp sickles in their hands.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  4. During the battle Getty and Carroll were wounded, but remained on the field.
    — from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant
  5. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.
    — from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
  6. Drawing himself up, he viewed the field of battle opening out before him from the hill, and with his whole soul followed the movement of the Uhlans.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  7. So this field of endeavor is [ 581 ] the one Professor Worcester has been industriously preparing during the last twelve years.
    — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
  8. This narrows the field immeasurably we meet again in it.”
    — from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  9. A field of consciousness, however complex, is never analyzed unless some of its ingredients have changed.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  10. The puzzle was to divide the circular field into four equal parts by three walls, each wall being of exactly the same length.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  11. And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  12. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the sons of Heth.—Genesis xxiii.
    — from The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete

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