Literary notes about Overfraught (AI summary)
The word "overfraught" is often employed to intensify emotional or descriptive states in literature. In one notable instance, it vividly underscores the relentless beating of human hearts, suggesting an intensity that far surpasses natural limits [1]. Authors also pair it with other positive emotions to imply that such feelings are amplified to an almost enchanted state [2]. In other usages, the term contributes to a broader motif of life's overwhelming or saturated nature [3], while at times, it is dissected linguistically to emphasize a sense of overload or excess [4].
- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - with gladness overfraught, No added charm thy face hath found; Within my heart the change is wrought, My footsteps make enchanted ground.
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier - It is with our life fraught and overfraught.
— from The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson - 124, “her grace whom” = the grace of her whom. surcharged : overloaded, ‘overfraught’ (l. 732 ).
— from Milton's Comus by John Milton
