Literary notes about Reunite (AI summary)
The word "reunite" in literature is often used as a powerful metaphor for restoring unity, whether it’s between physical parts, ideas, or even energies. In mythic contexts, such as in The Mabinogion, it describes the literal act of restoring a broken whole by bringing parts back together [1]. Carlyle, however, employs it to evoke the chaotic reassembly of dispersed forces amid turbulent circumstances [2], while a simple dictionary definition in a language primer reminds us of its basic meaning—to join or meet again [3]. Historical and philosophical texts extend this notion as well: Napoleon uses it to denote the reassembling of scattered thoughts for illumination [4], Verne applies it to the methodical organization of simple ideas in reasoning [5], and Montaigne emphasizes the importance of ideological unity over fragmentation [6]. Even in spiritual and political contexts, as seen in Yogananda’s exploration of energy and Hugo’s depiction of a fractured assembly, "reunite" embodies the striving toward a coherent and harmonious whole [7, 8].
- “Place the two parts together, and reunite them,” and Peredur placed them together, and they became entire as they were before.
— from The Mabinogion - The rain pours: Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses;' irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - , to join; reunite, meet again.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler - The traces of Napoleon's thoughts were scattered; it was necessary to reunite them and to give them to the light.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - Moreover in order to associate together these simple ideas and to reunite them under the form of reasoning, required some time.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - They who go about to disunite and separate our two principal parts from one another are to blame; we must, on the contrary, reunite and rejoin them.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - By Kriya , the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It has become impossible to reunite the popular Assembly.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo