Literary notes about Loft (AI summary)
The term "loft" functions in literature as a multifaceted spatial motif that conveys both literal and symbolic meanings. In some works it designates a practical upper storage or living area—a place for hiding objects, sheltering individuals, or even staging dramatic escapes or confrontations ([1], [2], [3]). In other narratives it assumes a more abstract role, evoking notions of elevation and introspection, as when it is linked to artistic creation, memories of happier times, or secretive retreats ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, historical and architectural descriptions employ "loft" to suggest traditional or medieval settings that enrich the text’s ambience by hinting at layered pasts and cultural identities ([7], [8], [9]).
- They had both their weapons and their clothes up in the loft beside them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson - But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen - There is a bed in the wholesome loft-room by the stable; we had better keep him there till morning, when he can be wrapped up and removed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - All you know about poetry is what you wrote up on the slates in the yard and were going to be sent to the loft for.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - But I make no doubt I shall sleep purely to-night, and dream that I am with you, in my dear, dear, happy loft once more.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson - Though I dismiss Dark, unavailing reverie, I just hint, in parenthesis, There is no stupid calumny Born of a babbler in a loft
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - This hole communicated with a kind of loft--the space between the floor of the king’s room and the ceiling of the one below it.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - á lopt (of motion), á lopti (of position); lopt , air, sky, loft; cp.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - LOPTUR, the Aerial, the Sublime; the air; whence the E. lofty and aloft, also a (hay) loft.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Sæmundur fróði
