Literary notes about Proclamation (AI summary)
In literature, "proclamation" is often charged with the power of an authoritative announcement that marks significant turning points in both public and private narratives. It may serve as a formal declaration of political or military orders as witnessed in accounts of military engagements [1], legislative sessions [2], or imperial decrees [3], while also carrying an air of personal or poetic symbolism in narratives of emancipation or transformation [4],[5]. At times, it is depicted as a tool wielded by power, transforming public sentiment or dictating the course of events [6],[7],[8]. This versatile use highlights the term’s ability to evoke both the gravity of official government mandates and the deeper emotional and allegorical layers that propel a story forward.
- The proclamation claims that the new government has 9,000 prisoners of war and 30,000 combatants.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount - Upon the firing on Sumter President Lincoln issued his first call for troops and soon after a proclamation convening Congress in extra session.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - 1 He now sends forth a proclamation inviting subjects to his as yet unpopulated kingdom.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville - I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, And find it out by proclamation; Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it, upon pain of death.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift - A repeal also passed of that law, the destruction of all laws, by which the King’s proclamation was made of equal force with a statute.—Ibid.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - “My government,” says the Aguinaldo proclamation, “rules the whole of Luzon, the Visayan Islands, and a part of Mindanao.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
